The Math Broke: Who can Afford to Stay in?
About this episode
Dan Aberhart discusses the financial challenges facing farm operators in 2026 with experts David Widmar and Eric Olsen.
Dan Aberhart hosts David Widmar (Agricultural Economic Insights) and Eric Olsen (MNP Farm Management) for a 75-minute live briefing on the financial math facing farm operators in 2026. The conversation moves through US and Canadian interest rate environments, government support program structures, a side-by-side farmland affordability calculator, lender behavior shifts, and the barriers facing the next generation of producers. The central tension: farmland values still reflect the low-interest-rate world of 2008-2021, but cash rents and operating costs have adjusted to today's reality -- leaving producers squeezed between an asset base that hasn't corrected and an operating business that can't carry it.
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