Collected Publications for 2025

Spring Revision to 2025 Illinois Crop Budgets

Food System Beliefs of Make America Healthy Again Supporters

Mastering the Early Years: Lessons on the Cover Crop Learning Curve, Part 3

Decomposition of Statement of Cash Flows

Brazil’s 2024–25 Corn Harvest Grows, But Exports Projected to Decrease

The House Reconciliation Bill Proposal for SCO: Income Support for High-Risk Farmland

Q1 2025: The Profitability of U.S. Commercial Banks Participating in Agricultural Lending

Crop Insurance, Premium Subsidies, and Soybean-Corn Disparity

Prospects for Swine Feed Costs in the Second Half of 2025

2025 Q1: Capital Adequacy of U.S. Commercial Banks Participating in Agricultural Lending

2024 County Corn and Soybean Yields from the Risk Management Agency

Farm Bill in Reconciliation: What the Byrd Rule Exposes but Does Not Resolve

A 20-Year Look at Feeder Cattle Production – Are There Differences Based on the Weight Purchased?

The Lending Activity and Performance of the Farm Credit System and Community Banks Participating in Agricultural Lending

Dramatic Difference in Expected Yields between Corn, Soybeans, and Cotton for Area-Based Insurance Products

Declining Yield Variability and 2025 US Corn and Soybean Yield Distribution

Consumer Concerns about Food Prices: Tariffs are Crowding Out Inflation

Nonemployer Businesses and the Geography of Self-Employment

Largest June Hog Herd Since 2020 & Smallest Breeding Herd Since 2015!

Reconciliation Bill Proposals to Add Base Acres

Response to the Increase in 2025 Crop ECO Premium Subsidy

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

Impact of Leverage on Rates of Return

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

The Growing Role of H-2A Workers in U.S. Agriculture

The New Base Acre Provisions in the 2025 Farm Bill

Tar Spot on the Move: Tracking and Managing an Established Corn Threat in Illinois

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

The role of H-2A Workers in Illinois

The Farm Bill in Reconciliation: Loophole as Rosetta Stone; Review and Comment

How Farm Size Affects Crop and Equipment Costs in Illinois?

Crop Insurance, 2025 Farm Bill, and Mission Creep

Factors Influencing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates and Timing in Illinois

Farm Goals

The Corn Market Works to Explain Itself

Are Cattle Inventories Turning the Corner?

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

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

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: The Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #5

Adoption of Conservation Practices and Farm Goals

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

Illinois Farm Real Estate Values Hold Strong in 2025, Even with Lower Farm Incomes

Fertilizer Decisions for the 2026 Crop Year

Optimizing Phosphorus Fertilizer Use: Evidence from Michigan Corn Production

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #4

Lower Grain Prices Lead to Lower Earnings for Grain Farms in 2024; Livestock Sector Sees Gains

Yes, There Are a Lot of Corn Acres: Evidence from FSA Acreage Data

2026 Illinois Crop Budgets

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