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Texas Agriculture Archive

March 17, 2006

FB launches 'production
decision' Web site

With farm income anticipated to be down nearly $15 billion in 2006 compared with 2005, the American Farm Bureau Federation has launched a new Web site to help farmers and ranchers make production decisions based on prevailing economic factors.

"As a service to Farm Bureau members, AFBF has always monitored conditions in the agricultural economy and tried to anticipate challenges that Farm Bureau members may face," said AFBF President Bob Stallman. "In this new information age, AFBF is capable of more easily sharing information and quickly directing members to important information via the Internet."

The address for the "Farm Bureau Production Decision Aid" Web site is http://fbpda.fb.org/. The AFBF economic analysis team has assembled information and data related to crop and livestock production expenses as well as whole-farm planning. Updates to the information will be regularly posted during the year.

The Web site lists production information for cattle, cotton, dairy, feed grains, fruits/vegetables, hogs, peanuts, rice, soybeans and wheat.

Resources or links that relate to each commodity appear on the front page of a section, and then by clicking onto a specific region of the country, the resources specific to that commodity and region are provided.