Collected Publications for 2024

Liquidity Trends for Illinois Farms: A Regional Comparison of Current Ratios from 2003-2022

A Menace to National Welfare Reconsidered, Part 1: Reviewing the Costs of Erosion

Understanding Increasing Debt Levels on Illinois Grain Farms

Integrated Risk Management: Developing an Asset-Based Business Strategy

The Curious Case of US Corn Yields in 2023

Exploring Yield Growth: US Crops in a Global 21st Century Context

A Menace to National Welfare Reconsidered, Part 2: Reviewing Tillage

Liquidity Trends for Illinois Farms: Comparing Farms by Gross Farm Returns from 2003-2022

Impacts of Corn Acreage Increases on National Corn Yields

Key Resources Determining the Future of the Farm: Human Capital and Information Technology

A National Menace Reconsidered, Part 3: Conservation Buffers

GFAPS Results: Tracking Public Perceptions of the Agri-Food System for Two Years

Can ‘Lost’ Crop Acres Be Found?

More Bearish News for Hog Producers

Land, not Exports, is the US Field Crop Problem – Part 1, US vs. World

Measuring Farm Policy, Part 4: Basic Input Costs and Payments

International Benchmarks for Wheat Production

Should We Have Been Surprised by the U.S. Average Yield of Corn in 2023?

Potential for Crop Expansion in Brazil Based on Pastureland and Double-Cropping

The Dilemma of Actuarial Soundness, A Legislative History

FAME Biodiesel, Renewable Diesel, and Biomass-Based Diesel Feedstock Trends over 2011-2023

Variability in Trend Estimates for US Corn Yields

Agricultural Land Shifts to the Tropics: A Strategic Challenge for US Crops

A Menace Reconsidered, Part 4: Losing Nitrogen

Cost to Produce Corn and Soybeans in Illinois—2023

Workforce Trends in the Midwest’s Food, Agriculture, and Forestry Industries

What Explains the Disparity between USDA and Conab over Brazil’s Soybean Crop Size?

Solvency Trends for Illinois Grain Farms

Measuring Farm Policy, Part 5: Reviewing Assistance for the Major Program Crops

Solvency Trends for Illinois Grain Farms: The Distribution of Debt-to-Asset Ratios by Gross Farm Returns

Further Evidence on the Impact of Late Planting on the U.S. Average Corn Yield

Trends in Input Costs for Corn and Soybean Production in Illinois

Fungicides Use in a Lower Price Environment

A Menace Reconsidered, Part 5: Reviewing Cover Crops

Discussing Key Resources and Risk Exposure in Your Farm Business Plan

Is the Trend Rate of Growth in the U.S. Average Corn Yield Slowing?

Base Acre Updating in the Next Farm Bill

Age of US Farmers: Not a Problem

The Sprouts of Farm Bill Reauthorization: Reference Prices

Sizing Up Potential Downside Risk for New-Crop Corn and Soybean Prices

Statutory Reference Prices and the Next Farm Bill

Crop Insurance Unit and Adverse Selection

Reference Price Disparities & Why It Matters to Farmers

Operational Ratios for Evaluating the Farm Business

Urgency for Enhanced Policy Intervention to Combat Avian Influenza in Dairy Cows

Spending Impacts of House Proposal for Commodity Title Changes

Rural Growth Requires More Housing

An Inflation Question Not Asked: What About Conservation?

Trends in Monthly Temperature and Precipitation for the U.S. Corn Belt

Spread of Corn Stunt Disease Lowers Production Expectations in Argentina

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