Cash Rents Part 1: Landowner Returns and Risk

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AgCountry Farm Credit Services, Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica), and Frontier Farm Credit sponsor a webinar series, Two Economists and a Lender. Our July installment featured Agriculture Economic Insights (AEI) co-founders David Widmar and Brent Gloy and Maggie Holub, developing markets officer. The webinar recording from July 28 is available.


Alternative farmland rental agreement comes with different returns and risk profiles. The risk is often overlooked. In this episode, we reviewed the trade-offs from the landowners’ perspective.

The next webinar will be about alternative farmland rental agreements from the farmers’ perspective on Thursday, August 28.