Welcome

Welcome to my farm management website!

I’m a farm management Extension professor at Kansas State University. This site is a collection of ideas and papers I’ve developed in support of farm management. My main areas of focus are farm management, agricultural finance, and risk management. I grew up on a grain and beef farm in southern Illinois and feel very strongly that agriculture is one of the strengths of our country. Farming to me defines agriculture. As such, much of my research and Extension activities are focused at the farm level.

Some of my specific focus ares include

  • Farm profitability
  • Input cost analysis
  • Crop budgets
  • Crop level profitability
  • Farm financial analysis
  • Farm benchmarking
  • Farm risk analysis
  • Techniques to reduce farm risk
  • Agricultural land valuation
  • Cash and share leasing

You can email me at ibendahl@agmgmt.info