Centre county Pennsylvania, USA | Interesting, but positive farm Return On Cost (ROC) is required to survive, no matter what farm income is. ROC data from World Bank folks predicts that probability of positive ROC in 2016 for the world's corn and/or soybean farmers is 0.508, same as any year.
World Bank's historical ROC for world's corn and soybean farmers is shown graphically, as histograms, in attached chart and in table format at this (virus safe) link:
http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=corn&months=240&co...
(monthly ROC histograms.jpg)
Attachments ---------------- monthly ROC histograms.jpg (67KB - 68 downloads)
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