Collected Publications for 2022

The 2021 Crop Insurance Loss Performance

2024 Farm Bill Dilemma, 1981 Farm Bill, and 2018 Farm Bill Price Support Adjustments

What to Expect as Corn Yields Face a Third Straight La Niña

Perspectives on National U.S. Corn Yields for Productivity and Down-Side Yield Risk

Differences in Working Capital to Gross Farm Revenues Among Farms

What Happens When USDA Updates Yield Expectations?

Nitrogen Fertilizer Outlook for 2023 Decisions

How Americans Acquired Food During the COVID-19 Pandemic: 2020-2022

Major Questions: The Supreme Court and the Decline of Textualism

Continued Cowherd Contraction Confirmed

Crop Insurance Performance by Crop Persists Over Time

An Estimate of Corn Production From the 18 Leading Corn States

Wheat Outlook After Five Months of War in Ukraine

2023 Crop Budgets: Higher Costs and Lower Returns

Corn and Soybean Prevent Plant and the Dakotas

An Estimate of Soybean Production From the 18 Leading Soybean States

Conventional and Organic Enterprise Net Returns

Illinois Farm Real Estate Values Increase $1,000 per Acre for 2022

SCO and ECO Insurance Program Use

Reviewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; Part 1

Reviewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; Part 2

Farmland Prices Higher but Still in Line with Market Fundamentals

Yield News Now, Demand News to Come

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, Initial Results

Good Yields and High Grain Prices Lead to Strong Farm Earnings in 2021

Reviewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Part 3: The Bigger Picture

Projected Wheat Double-Crop Soybean Profitability in 2023

Planting Flexibility and Current US Crop Acres

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, Impact of Inflation

Allowing New Base Acres for Current Program Commodities: An Assessment

New Record Grain Production on Horizon for Brazil

Margin Protection: Description and a Review of Experience

A Revised Estimate of Corn Production From the 18 Leading Corn States

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, Views on Inflation

Comparing Net Returns for Alternative Leasing Arrangements

Margin Protection Revenue and Cost Components

A Revised Estimate of Soybean Production From the 18 Leading Soybean States

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, How to Encourage Sustainable Food Production

The Export Sales Data Snafu

Production News Rules the Day

Information for Setting 2023 Cash Rents

Decomposing Crop Revenue Insurance Indemnities into Type of Loss Covered

Mulling Over Margin, Part 1: Introduction and Historical Background

Financial Summary of Illinois Farms for 2021

The Case for a New Crop Insurance Product: Yield Protection with Harvest Price Option

A Straight-Forward Variable Cash Lease with Revised Parameters

Mulling Over Margin, Part 2: the “Elusive” Cost of Production

2014 Farm Bill Voluntary Base Acre Reallocation: Cost Assessment

Fertilizer Prices, Rates, and Costs for 2023

Climate Change and the Farm Bill: A Brief History

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