William Edwards
Professor and Extension Economist
Iowa State University

William Edwards’ has taught the introductory farm business management course at Iowa State University for over 30 years and is co-author, with Ron Kay and Patricia Duffy, of Farm Management, a popular undergraduate text book (McGraw-Hill, 2012). His extension program areas include risk management, financial management, machinery economics, employee management, farm leasing arrangements, and farm information systems. Each year he conducts surveys of farm custom rates and farmland cash rental rates in Iowa, which generate thousands of requests and downloads. The cash rental rate survey provides county level data for multiple crops and land classes. Read more »