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Cash Rents and Contribution Margins

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Frontier Farm Credit and Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) are co-sponsoring a webinar series, Two Economists and a Lender. Our latest installment featured Agriculture Economic Insights (AEI) co-founders David Widmar and Brent Gloy, and Rod Hartwig, vice president, commercial lending. The webinar recording from August 22 is available. Explore upcoming webinars.


Cash rents are hard to benchmark and adjust as commodity prices fluctuate. In this webinar, we discussed contribution margins and how they can provide another data point for producers wanting to ground-truth their cash rental rates.