Documents & Presentations by Terry Griffin
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Producers Wanted for Farm Data Project
K-State precision agricultural economist Terry Griffin invites producers to take part in a new initiative called the Data-Intensive Farm Management Project...supported by a major USDA grant, this will make available to participants precision cropping analytical tools to evaluate site-specific crop seeding and nutrient applications, in real-life situations on the farm. |
October 9, 2020 |
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Estimating Farmland Value
K-State agricultural economist Terry Griffin talks about a new tool that he has developed for estimating farmland value for a given year using the current value of that land...using annual value indexes for every year since 1950, the user can determine the tax liability of farmland transactions. |
September 15, 2020 |
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Calculating Farm Machinery Costs
K-State agricultural economist Gregg Ibendahl and Terry Griffin talk about a new online tool that farmers can use to calculate farm machinery costs...as input for making machinery purchase decisions, as a basis for comparing lease vs. purchase options, or for weighing the choice of custom hiring an operation instead of investing in equipment...they say it's an easy-to-use tool that can provide very useful information. |
September 2, 2020 |
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Least-Cost Fertilizer Options
K-State agricultural economists Terry Griffin and Gregg Ibendahl talk about a different approach to determining least-cost crop fertilizer options for producers, using an economic tool that they've developed that's now available to crop growers and retail fertilizer vendors alike. |
August 21, 2020 |
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Variable-Rate Fertilizer Applications
K-State precision agriculture economist Terry Griffin is joined by a gerontologist from the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, LaVona Traywick. They cooperated on a recent study of variable-rate fertilizer applications, and why farmers have been slow to adopt that technology over the many years that it's been around. There are both economic and generational components to their findings, and this research says a great deal about how the different farming generations embrace precision technology. |
August 12, 2020 |
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Making Better Cover Crop Choices
K-State cropping systems economist Terry Griffin talks about his current project, developing a tool for producers to use in optimizing their cover crop selection, making decisions on a least-cost basis...he goes over the variables that producers need to think about when putting together an economical cover crop mix that still serves the intended purposes. |
May 12, 2020 |
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Ag Technology and Farm Labor
From the recent Women Managing the Farm Conference at K-State, agricultural technology specialist Terry Griffin shares some observations from a discussion forum he moderated, on farm technology adoption and how that impacts farm labor. Terry also hints at an emerging conflict between two major farm data services. Could this conflict get the attention of legislators? |
February 21, 2020 |
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Big Farm Data
K-State precision agriculture economist Terry Griffin looks at the ongoing issue of "big farm data": who owns it, and to what extent do farmers want to commit to a data processing venture...he tackled those and other questions as an invited speaker at an ag data law symposium hosted by Texas A&M University last week. |
February 6, 2020 |
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Autonomous Farming Systems
K-State precision agriculture economist Terry Griffin talks about the economic feasibility of autonomous farming systems, which have become the premiere topic at several precision agricultural technology conferences he has participated in this winter...he also touches upon the ongoing issue of how best to utilize and manage precision data collected at the farm level. |
January 28, 2020 |
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Trends in Farm Management Research
K-State agricultural economist Terry Griffin talks about a different kind of analysis he has just finished up: he tallied articles from a highly-respected journal to identify trends in farm management research, which indicated to him where such research might best be directed going forward. |
December 13, 2019 |
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