Collected Publications for Gary Schnitkey

Response to the Increase in 2025 Crop ECO Premium Subsidy

Farm Bill in Reconciliation: ARC/PLC Payment Projections; Policy Design Lab Update

2025 Grain Farm Return Prospects at the Beginning of July with a New Commodity Title

The New Base Acre Provisions in the 2025 Farm Bill

Impacts of the Commodity Title Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) for Midwestern Farms in 2025

Factors Influencing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates and Timing in Illinois

U.S. Fertilizer Industry in Global Markets: Structure and Supply Risks

Support Price, Cost of Production, and the 21st Century

Projections of Commodity Program Payments for Illinois in 2024 and 2025

Support Price, Market Price, and the 21st Century

U.S. Tariffs on Brazil: Potential Implications for Agricultural Trade and Consumers

Fertilizer Decisions for the 2026 Crop Year

2026 Illinois Crop Budgets

Grains and Oilseeds: Part I – China and South America

Comparing Returns to Owned vs Cash Rented Farmland

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 2 – United States

Machinery Cost Estimates for 2025

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 3 – Rest-of-the-World

Considerations for Setting 2026 Cash Rents

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 4 – Summary and Implications

A New Area-Based Crop Insurance Product: MCO (Margin Coverage Option)

Margin Coverage Option (MCO) Historical Analysis

Revised Variable Cash Lease Parameters

Relationships between Average Cash Rents and Soil Productivity

Large Increase in Machinery Costs Suggests Need to Reconsider Machinery Purchase Decisions

2024 Crop Safety Net Payments: Performance of Contemporary Ad Hoc Assistance

Cash Requirements of Owned Farmland: 2025 vs. 2005

Individual US Crop Inputs Post 2014 Farm Bill

2025 Crop Insurance Harvest Prices for Corn and Soybeans

Estimates of 2024 ARC-CO and PLC Payments

Projected ARC and PLC Payments for 2025

Additional ARC/PLC Payments for 2025: Value of Receiving the Maximum Program Payment

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