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Adoption of Conservation Practices and Farm Goals
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Support Price, Cost of Production, and the 21st Century
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U.S. Fertilizer Industry in Global Markets: Structure and Supply Risks
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Are Cattle Inventories Turning the Corner?
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Adoption of Conservation Practices and Farm Goals
August 1, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: The Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #5
July 31, 2025
Support Price, Cost of Production, and the 21st Century
July 30, 2025
U.S. Fertilizer Industry in Global Markets: Structure and Supply Risks
July 29, 2025
Are Cattle Inventories Turning the Corner?
July 28, 2025
The Corn Market Works to Explain Itself
July 24, 2025
Farm Goals
July 23, 2025
Factors Influencing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates and Timing in Illinois
July 22, 2025
Crop Insurance, 2025 Farm Bill, and Mission Creep
July 21, 2025
How Farm Size Affects Crop and Equipment Costs in Illinois?
July 18, 2025

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Acreage Surprise Boosts Old-Crop Prices
January 13, 2023
Looking Outward, Inward, and Backward to Go Forward
December 12, 2022
Tempered Expectations for 2022/23 Supply and Demand for Corn and Soybeans
November 28, 2022
No News is Just No News
November 14, 2022
WASDE Recap: Corn and Soybeans at a Turning Point
October 17, 2022
Acreage Surprise Boosts Old-Crop Prices
January 13, 2023
Looking Outward, Inward, and Backward to Go Forward
December 12, 2022
Tempered Expectations for 2022/23 Supply and Demand for Corn and Soybeans
November 28, 2022
No News is Just No News
November 14, 2022
WASDE Recap: Corn and Soybeans at a Turning Point
October 17, 2022
Production News Rules the Day
September 12, 2022
Significant Revisions, Bullish Inventories, and Bearish Farrowing Estimates
January 4, 2021
Many Market Ready Hogs with Industry Contraction to Follow
September 28, 2020
Looking at 2020-21 Corn Consumption
August 24, 2020
Soybeans Rally despite Record Yield Forecast
August 17, 2020

Weekly Farm Economics

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U.S. Fertilizer Industry in Global Markets: Structure and Supply Risks
July 29, 2025
Factors Influencing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates and Timing in Illinois
July 22, 2025
Impacts of the Commodity Title Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) for Midwestern Farms in 2025
July 15, 2025
2025 Grain Farm Return Prospects at the Beginning of July with a New Commodity Title
July 8, 2025
Dramatic Difference in Expected Yields between Corn, Soybeans, and Cotton for Area-Based Insurance Products
June 24, 2025
U.S. Fertilizer Industry in Global Markets: Structure and Supply Risks
July 29, 2025
Factors Influencing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates and Timing in Illinois
July 22, 2025
Impacts of the Commodity Title Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) for Midwestern Farms in 2025
July 15, 2025
2025 Grain Farm Return Prospects at the Beginning of July with a New Commodity Title
July 8, 2025
Dramatic Difference in Expected Yields between Corn, Soybeans, and Cotton for Area-Based Insurance Products
June 24, 2025
2024 County Corn and Soybean Yields from the Risk Management Agency
June 17, 2025
The House Reconciliation Bill Proposal for SCO: Income Support for High-Risk Farmland
June 10, 2025
Spring Revision to 2025 Illinois Crop Budgets
June 3, 2025
Impacts of Premium Support Increase of Basic and Optional Units in House Reconciliation Bill
May 27, 2025
Spending Impacts of PLC and ARC-CO in House Agriculture Reconciliation Bill
May 20, 2025

Gardner Policy Series

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The Reconciliation Farm Bill: The Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #5
July 31, 2025
Support Price, Cost of Production, and the 21st Century
July 30, 2025
Crop Insurance, 2025 Farm Bill, and Mission Creep
July 21, 2025
The Farm Bill in Reconciliation: Loophole as Rosetta Stone; Review and Comment
July 17, 2025
Impacts of the Commodity Title Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) for Midwestern Farms in 2025
July 15, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: The Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #5
July 31, 2025
Support Price, Cost of Production, and the 21st Century
July 30, 2025
Crop Insurance, 2025 Farm Bill, and Mission Creep
July 21, 2025
The Farm Bill in Reconciliation: Loophole as Rosetta Stone; Review and Comment
July 17, 2025
Impacts of the Commodity Title Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) for Midwestern Farms in 2025
July 15, 2025
The New Base Acre Provisions in the 2025 Farm Bill
July 11, 2025
2025 Grain Farm Return Prospects at the Beginning of July with a New Commodity Title
July 8, 2025
Farm Bill in Reconciliation: ARC/PLC Payment Projections; Policy Design Lab Update
July 3, 2025
Response to the Increase in 2025 Crop ECO Premium Subsidy
July 2, 2025
Reconciliation Bill Proposals to Add Base Acres
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