by Dave Bau, Extension educator
The Farm Resource Guide for 2021 is now available at many University of Minnesota Extension County offices across the state. This resource guide includes a wide variety of useful farm business management information, including the following items:
- Custom rates: what to charge for planting, etc.
- Average farmland rental rates by county from two sources with projections for 2021
- Flexible rental agreements and examples of how they work and how they have worked in past
- Fill-in-the-blank lease forms for cash rent and share rent arrangements
- Farmland sales information for all counties in Minnesota that lists current average ag sales
- Information on charges for custom feeding, commodity storage, leasing buildings and various bin rental rates, including leasing a dairy barn and machine storage.
- Current information on pasture rental rates, tree timber values
- Marketing information along with recent cost trends for Minnesota
- Commodity price probabilities for corn, soybeans, alfalfa hay, straw, grass hay, hogs and cattle
- USDA corn and soybean yields by county to be used for calculating the Farm Bill payments
- Feedlot rule highlights and information on manure agreement and easements
- Manure spreading lease examples and land application agreements
- E-mail: $25 plus sales tax
- CD: $29.00
- Hard copy: $31.00
