Barometer: ag input prices, availability remain top concerns for farmers

Producers say high input costs remain a top concern for their farming operations, according to the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.

Jim Mintert is the director of the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture.

“Forty-two percent of the people in the survey said higher input costs was their biggest concern,” he says. “That was more than twice the percentage of people that chose government policies or lower output prices. That’s indicative of the level of concern people have about inputs.”

He tells Brownfield farmers expect already-high crop input prices to increase in 2023.

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