This project focuses on state and regional farm finances

The primary goal is to provide current and forward-looking indicators to support public and private sector decision making. This would fill a research GAP, as currently few efforts develop forward-looking estimates of subnational farm financial indicators, and none attempt to do so in a way that would allow comparisons across states and regions, nor that explores key interactions with growing conditions, markets, government programs, and farm financial health. The project would complement existing analysis by the food and agricultural policy research institute at the university of missouri (fapri-MU) of national level farm finances and companion work by texas a & m's agriculture and food policy center (afpc) that looks at the financial outlook for representative farms, as well as complement the existing state and national farm income and farm financial estimates produced by the USDA.