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The raw data is from the FINPACK database, parsed and analyzed by Walker Insight. It’s somewhat surprising, to me at least, that the average farm shows lower cost of funds than BEA’s set. It may be methodological issues, but also might reflect various subsidized financing sources available to farmers. That average farms here also tends to show higher ROA is somewhat counter-intuitive. Farming is largley regarded as a “lifestyle business” and therefore afflicted by lower returns. I hypothesize that farms reporting to FINPACK do have strong contingent of high performing operations that affect the average. 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The idea that stagflation, seismic shifts in monetary policy, double-digit inflation and interest rates, price controls, are just part of the geography of doing business is therefore wired deeply in our firm DNA. Reasonable people can dispute whether Tom sought trouble or it sought him, but as it happened, he found himself immediately embroiled in various crises on behalf of his clients. It seemed reasonable that an accountant might have some insight into financial matters (this was ages ago, before the exploding, Byzantine tax code forced increasing specialization in the industry). He saw that the missing piece in most cases was timely, accurate information. And indeed, the firm mantra was “to provide actionable financial information to the owners of small businesses.” Tom Jr. joined just out of college (University of Northwestern – St. Paul) in 1989. Sr. had been an early adopter of then-novel technologies like the PC and state-of-the-art spreadsheet software. Advancements there opened whole new vistas of possibility in planning, price discovery, economic forecasting, and relevant historical research. 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