The buy/sell margin (the difference between a feeder calf or yearling purchase price and a sale price at some later date) is a critical component in the profitability of beef…
Buy/Sell Margins Calculator
AREC at Pick TN Conference
The department is having a strong showing at the 2024 Pick TN Conference, held February 15-17. Our faculty and staff are speaking on topics from pricing specialty crops, starting a…
AREC Has Strong Showing at SAEA
The department had a strong showing at the 2024 Southern Agricultural Economics Association’s annual meeting. This year’s meeting was held in Atlanta, Georgia, from February 3-6. Our faculty and graduate…
AREC Poster Wins 3rd Place at SAEA
We’re proud to announce that an AREC poster on “Assessing Tennessee’s Emerging Circular Bioeconomy” won 3rd place at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association’s annual meeting! The AREC team snagging the…
AREC Research News: Econogram, January 2024
UTIA Summarizes a Trying Year for Agriculture in Yearly Report to Governor From increased agricultural commodity competition to the resumption of wheat and corn exports from Russia and Ukraine, global…
Dallas Manning Retires
Dallas Manning retired on December 31, 2023, after 42 years with UT Extension. Dallas dedicated himself to helping Tennessee’s agricultural community, colleagues, producers, and stakeholders. In 2021, he was presented…
Rachel Painter is Newest Farm Management Specialist
Rachel Painter joined the MANAGE team and UT Center of Farm Management as the newest farm management specialist on January 1. Farm management specialists help producers analyze their total farming…
Logan Meeks is New Farm Management Specialist
Logan Meeks is a new farm management specialist for the University of Tennessee Extension’s MANAGE Program and the UT Center of Farm Management, where he will provide farm and financial…
Jason Kelley Named in UT’s Volunteer 40 Under 40
Jason Kelley (AREC ’06) has been named in UT’s Volunteer 40 Under 40, a distinguished designation that recognizes forty alumni under the age of 40 who have excelled personally and…
Prevented Planting Decision Aids
The Prevented Planting decision aid is an excel base tool that will help producers in determining which prevented planting decision is best for their circumstances. The tools allows producers to…