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Updated Estimates of the Production Capacity of U.S. Renewable Diesel Plants Through 2026

November 6, 2024

Maria Gerveni, Todd Hubbs, Scott Irwin, and Steven Ramsey

Less than two years ago, we projected renewable diesel capacity would reach 6 billion gallons in 2025. We now project capacity in 2025 to be 5.1 billion gallons. The list of announced projects is still long and could eventually add substantially to renewable diesel capacity. However, none of these projects have yet broken ground. Until there is confirmation of actual construction activity, we now believe it is prudent to exclude these announced projects in projections.

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Impacts of Higher Premium Support Rates on ECO Performance

November 5, 2024

Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, Carl Zulauf, Burce Sherrick, and Brittney Goodrich

For 2025, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) has increased the premium support rate for the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) from 44% of the total premium to 65%. As a result, farmers will pay less for premiums in 2025 and the following years. We evaluate the impact of the increase in ECO’s subsidy rate on farmer-paid premiums and net payments using a historical analysis from 2015 to 2023.

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Reviewing the Latest Ad Hoc Payment Proposal in Congress

November 4, 2024

Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, and Nick Paulson

Since the tariff and trade conflicts that began in 2018, through the pandemic relief assistance efforts in 2020, American farmers have received an unusual amount of ad hoc and supplemental…

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Long-Term Trends in Pigs per Litter

November 1, 2024

Michael Langemeier

Pigs per litter has increased at a rate of 0.107 pigs per year since 1994. Another way of stating the same thing, the annual growth rate of pigs per litter in the U.S. was 1.1 percent from 1994 to 2023. Continued improvements in production performance will help ensure the U.S. swine industry remains competitive.

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Assessing Your Working Capital

October 31, 2024

Dwight Raab

As we approach the end of the year and gather financial facts to document farm financial performance including working capital, it is also a good time to plan for cash flow and liquidity needs for 2025…and beyond. If you don’t already use an accrual income statement and balance sheet to mark that financial performance…..times like these are a good time to start. Be a good steward of your financial resources.

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Fixing Holes in the Current Crop Safety Net

October 30, 2024

Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess and Nick Paulson

Instead of passing ad hoc economic assistance, this article proposes a new multiyear risk program as a better use of funds and as more likely to fix holes in the crop safety net. These multiyear risk program payments can be made in the Fall of 2024 and Fall of 2025, respectively; or nearly two years and one year earlier than ARC (Agriculture Risk Coverage) and the other commodity program, PLC (Price Loss Coverage), are expected to make sizable payment.

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2023 ARC-CO and PLC Payments for Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat

October 29, 2024

Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess

The 2023 Commodity title program will make payments this fall, and payment rates for Price Loss Coverage and Agriculture Risk Coverage at the county level have been released. No PLC payments were triggered for corn, soybeans, or wheat as the 2023 MYA prices for these crops were all above their respective effective reference prices. ARC-CO payments for corn, soybeans, and wheat were triggered in a relatively small number of counties nationally.

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