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The New Base Acre Provisions in the 2025 Farm Bill

July 11, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson

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

July 3, 2025
Henrique Monaco, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey

Response to the Increase in 2025 Crop ECO Premium Subsidy

July 2, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Bruce Sherrick, and Gary Schnitkey

Reconciliation Bill Proposals to Add Base Acres

July 1, 2025
Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson and Jonathan Coppess

Consumer Concerns about Food Prices: Tariffs are Crowding Out Inflation

June 26, 2025
Brenna Ellison, Maria Kalaitzandonakes, and Jonathan Coppess

Declining Yield Variability and 2025 US Corn and Soybean Yield Distribution

June 25, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

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

June 18, 2025
Jonathan Coppess

Crop Insurance, Premium Subsidies, and Soybean-Corn Disparity

June 12, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

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

June 5, 2025
Shae Cilento, Jonathan Coppess, and Marin Skidmore

Food System Beliefs of Make America Healthy Again Supporters

June 4, 2025
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Brenna Ellison, and Jonathan Coppess

Public Perspectives of Make America Healthy Again and the Food System

May 30, 2025
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Jonathan Coppess, and Brenna Ellison

Agri-Food Transportation by Highway, Railway, and Waterway in the United States

May 28, 2025
Megan Konar and Deniz Karakoc

Reviewing the CBO Score of the House Reconciliation Bill

May 22, 2025
Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, and Nick Paulson

Reviewing the House Agriculture Committee’s Reconciliation Bill

May 14, 2025
Jonathan Coppess, Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Bruce Sherrick

Beyond the Adoption Decision: Lessons on the Cover Crop Learning Curve, Part 2

May 9, 2025
Shae Cilento, Jonathan Coppess, and Marin Skidmore

Are US Crop Production Costs High?

April 30, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

Missing the System for the Adoption: Lessons on the Cover Crop Learning Curve, Part 1

April 24, 2025
Shae Cilento, Jonathan Coppess, and Marin Skidmore

US Crop Agriculture’s Government Payment Trap

April 21, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess

Countercyclical Performance of Commodity, Insurance, and Ad Hoc Crop Programs

April 16, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, Jonathan Coppess, and Gary Schnitkey

Demise of the US Countercyclical Crop Safety Net

April 11, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson

Research & Conservation: Reviewing the Illinois Dust Storm of 2023

April 10, 2025
Jonathan Coppess, Abhijit Das, Yangyang Xu, Qi Li, Shuai Shuai, Sheng Wang, Qu Zhou, Bin Peng, Kayla Boparai, and Kaiyu Guan

Self-Insurance by US Farmers

April 3, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson

US Farm Program Crops in the Planting Flexibility Era

March 28, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

Conservation Quandaries, Part 3: Reviewing Practice Standards for Irrigation Practices

March 27, 2025
Jonathan Coppess

Consumers’ Expectations about GLP-1 Drugs Economic Impact on Food System Players

March 14, 2025
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Brenna Ellison, Trey Malone, and Jonathan Coppess

On the Origins of Budget Reconciliation

March 13, 2025
Jonathan Coppess

Consumer Concerns about Tariffs and Food Prices

March 6, 2025
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Jonathan Coppess, and Brenna Ellison

US Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Acres in the Planting Flexibility Era

March 3, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson

Conservation Quandaries, Part 2: Water Law

February 27, 2025
Jonathan Coppess and JR Glenn

Are US Commodity Program Payments Impacting Planted Acres?

February 24, 2025
Carl Zulauf, David Orden, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson

Impact of Drought in the States in the Colorado River Basin on US Planted Acres

February 14, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson

Conservation Quandaries, Part 1: Too Much and Not Enough

February 13, 2025
Jonathan Coppess

Planted Acres and Private Market Profitability over the Current Crop Safety Net Period

February 6, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey

Improving Contemporary Ad Hoc Economic Assistance

January 31, 2025
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey

Federal Financial Assistance in Limbo; Farm Bill Perspective

January 30, 2025
Jonathan Coppess

Reviewing Public Support for Payments to Farmers

January 16, 2025
Jonathan Coppess, Maria Kalaitzandonakes, and Brenna Ellison

Impacts of Economic Assistance Payments

January 7, 2025
Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, and Jonathan Coppess

A Mid-December Look at 2024 Crop Safety Net Payments

December 13, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, and Gary Schnitkey

The Importance of Food Prices in 2024 Election: Results from the Gardner Food & Agricultural Policy Survey

December 5, 2024
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Brenna Ellison, and Jonathan Coppess

MultiCrop Insurance

November 27, 2024
Carl Zulauf and Gary Schnitkey

Reauthorization or Reconciliation: Thoughts on the Farm Bill’s Prospects

November 21, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Assessing Design of the FARM Ad Hoc Assistance Proposal

November 13, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

Taking A Closer Look at the Conservation Tradeoff Issues

November 7, 2024
Jonathan Coppess and Yifan Peng

Reviewing the Latest Ad Hoc Payment Proposal in Congress

November 4, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, and Nick Paulson

Fixing Holes in the Current Crop Safety Net

October 30, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess and Nick Paulson

The DIRECT4AG Project, Part 3: Technology for Cover Crop Establishment

October 28, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Anthony Studer, Madsen Sullivan, Rabin Bhattarai, Dennis Bowman, Lowell Gentry, Corey Mitchell, Christopher Navarro, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Rashmil Panchani, Joseph Quansah and Nathan Johanning

Inflation and Conservation, Part 2: When is Inflation “Not Just” Inflation?

October 24, 2024
Jonathan Coppess and Inder Majumdar

The DIRECT4AG Project, Part 2: Helping Advance Adoption of Cover Crops

October 21, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Anthony Studer, Madsen Sullivan, Rabin Bhattarai, Dennis Bowman, Lowell Gentry, Corey Mitchell, Christopher Navarro, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Rashmil Panchani, and Joseph Quansah

Net Return to Farm Program Crops: Harvest 2024

October 16, 2024
Carl Zulauf

Innovations in Research and Extension: The DIRECT4AG Project, Part 1; An Introduction

October 14, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Anthony Studer, Rabin Bhattarai, Dennis Bowman, Lowell Gentry, Cory Mitchell, Christopher Navarro, and Joseph Quansah

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