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Farm Financials Going into 2024

USDA’s 30 November farm income forecast shows net farm income at $151.1 billion for CY 2023, a decrease of $31.8 billion, or 17.4 percent, relative to 2022 in nominal dollars. In inflation adjusted dollars, net farm income is forecast to drop $37.9 billion, or 20 percent from 2022. This is a slight improvement over the August forecast of a 23 percent nominal drop. Net farm income in 2022, however, was a record high $182.2 billion, up 30.2 percent from 2021, still leaving net farm income in 2023 at 31.4 percent above its 20-year average (2003–22) of $115 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars. Below is a look at income by commodity; cash receipts are forecast down 4.7 percent for all crops and down 5 percent for livestock and pro...

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Communicating importance of value-added products

Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.

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