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Solvency Series: Per Acre Gross Farm and Management Returns of Illinois Grain Farms by their Debt Burden
October 17, 2025
2024 Crop Safety Net Payments: Performance of Contemporary Ad Hoc Assistance
October 16, 2025
Apiculture Rainfall Index Insurance: An Insurance Product for Beekeeping Operations of All Sizes
October 15, 2025
Large Increase in Machinery Costs Suggests Need to Reconsider Machinery Purchase Decisions
October 14, 2025
The Soybean Industry Response to the Renewable Diesel Boom, Part 3: the Value of Soybean Oil in the Soybean Crush
October 13, 2025
Solvency Series: Per Acre Gross Farm and Management Returns of Illinois Grain Farms by their Debt Burden
October 17, 2025
2024 Crop Safety Net Payments: Performance of Contemporary Ad Hoc Assistance
October 16, 2025
Apiculture Rainfall Index Insurance: An Insurance Product for Beekeeping Operations of All Sizes
October 15, 2025
Large Increase in Machinery Costs Suggests Need to Reconsider Machinery Purchase Decisions
October 14, 2025
The Soybean Industry Response to the Renewable Diesel Boom, Part 3: the Value of Soybean Oil in the Soybean Crush
October 13, 2025
Solvency Series: Per Acre Economic Costs of Illinois Grain Farms by their Debt Burden
October 10, 2025
Net Return to Storing US Corn and Soybeans Since 1973
October 8, 2025
Relationships between Average Cash Rents and Soil Productivity
October 7, 2025
Comparative Cost Advantages for U.S. Corn and Soybean Production, and a Seed Cost Disadvantage in Soybeans
October 6, 2025
Crop vs. Livestock Sentiment: Perspectives from the Ag Economy Barometer
October 3, 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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Large Increase in Machinery Costs Suggests Need to Reconsider Machinery Purchase Decisions
October 14, 2025
Relationships between Average Cash Rents and Soil Productivity
October 7, 2025
Revised Variable Cash Lease Parameters
September 30, 2025
Margin Coverage Option (MCO) Historical Analysis
September 23, 2025
A New Area-Based Crop Insurance Product: MCO (Margin Coverage Option)
September 16, 2025
Large Increase in Machinery Costs Suggests Need to Reconsider Machinery Purchase Decisions
October 14, 2025
Relationships between Average Cash Rents and Soil Productivity
October 7, 2025
Revised Variable Cash Lease Parameters
September 30, 2025
Margin Coverage Option (MCO) Historical Analysis
September 23, 2025
A New Area-Based Crop Insurance Product: MCO (Margin Coverage Option)
September 16, 2025
Considerations for Setting 2026 Cash Rents
September 9, 2025
Machinery Cost Estimates for 2025
September 2, 2025
Comparing Returns to Owned vs Cash Rented Farmland
August 26, 2025
2026 Illinois Crop Budgets
August 19, 2025
Fertilizer Decisions for the 2026 Crop Year
August 12, 2025

Gardner Policy Series

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2024 Crop Safety Net Payments: Performance of Contemporary Ad Hoc Assistance
October 16, 2025
History & Tough Reality: When Payments Do More Harm Than Good, Consider Other Options
September 25, 2025
Do Changes in Food and Agriculture Policy Align with Changes in Public Priorities?
September 24, 2025
Tracking Public Perceptions of Payments Across Commodities
September 17, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Is Conservation a Silver Lining?
September 11, 2025
2024 Crop Safety Net Payments: Performance of Contemporary Ad Hoc Assistance
October 16, 2025
History & Tough Reality: When Payments Do More Harm Than Good, Consider Other Options
September 25, 2025
Do Changes in Food and Agriculture Policy Align with Changes in Public Priorities?
September 24, 2025
Tracking Public Perceptions of Payments Across Commodities
September 17, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Is Conservation a Silver Lining?
September 11, 2025
Tracking Public Perceptions of MAHA
September 8, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #1
September 4, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #2
August 28, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #3
August 21, 2025
The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #4
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