Agility and absorption capacity represent two distinct strategies through which a farm builds resilience (Lippsmeyer and Langemeier, 2023).  Agility is a farm’s ability to spot and exploit market changes in…

Soybean farmers in both countries have little control over the prices they receive. Because individual farms sell in the same global market, their ability to compete depends largely on how much it costs them to produce a crop. This article compares what nine typical farms in the U.S. and Brazil spent on seed, fertilizer, and pesticides over five years, showing where input costs differ between the two countries and discussing factors that may explain those differences.

A recent article examined differences in liquidity and repayment capacity for different sized crop farms (Langemeier, 2026).  This article examines trends in the operating profit margins, asset turnover ratios, and…