Collected Publications for Crop Economics

Trends in General Inflation and Farm Input Prices

Are US Crop Production Costs High?

US Crop Agriculture’s Government Payment Trap

2025 Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat Prospective Plantings in a Longer-Run Context

Ethanol Boom Drives Sharp Rise in Brazil’s Corn Consumption

Projected Corn versus Soybean Returns in Illinois for 2025

Buying Inputs in the Current Business Climate

Record Soybean Harvest in South America and Favorable Outlook for Exports

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

Are US Commodity Program Payments Impacting Planted Acres?

Where Have All the Honey Bees Gone? To California Almond Orchards

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

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

U.S. Agricultural Trade Background Given Potential Tariffs

Beyond the Climate: Multiple Sources of Risk in Agriculture in the United States, Brazil and Argentina

Potential Federal Policy Responses to Negative Grain Farm Incomes

Shifting Dynamics in Soybean Farm Funding in Brazil

Perspectives and Strategies for Dealing with Low Farm Incomes in 2024 and Beyond

Implications of Non-Increasing Farmer Returns

Trends in Corn Plant Populations

Brazil’s Corn Harvest Declines, Yet Remains Second Largest in Nation’s History

US Interest Rates and the Price of Capital

Corn and Soybeans Economics in 2024 and 2025: Back to the New (Old) Normal?

Conventional and Organic Enterprise Net Returns

How the EU Deforestation Rule Will Affect Agriculture in Brazil

US Inflation and Labor

Fungicides Use in a Lower Price Environment

What Explains the Disparity between USDA and Conab over Brazil’s Soybean Crop Size?

U.S. Dominance in Corn Exports on the Wane Due to Brazilian Competition

The United States, Brazil, and China Soybean Triangle: A 20-Year Analysis

Producer Sentiment and Resilience at the Purdue Top Farmer Conference

Robust Cover Crop Systems for Soybeans

The Emerging Cannabis Market in Illinois: Prices, Taxes, and Supply Constraints

How Did Corn Farmers Adjust Nitrogen Application Rates in Illinois in 2022?

Trend in Breakeven Prices for Cattle Finishing

2023 Harvest Prices and Revenue Insurance Payments for Corn and Soybeans

Impact of Lower Corn Prices on Feeding Cost of Gain for Cattle Finishing

Potential Crop Insurance Payments for 2023

Agility and Producer Sentiment

Absorption Capacity and Producer Sentiment

Factors Impacting Succession Planning

Conventional and Organic Enterprise Net Returns

2024 Crop Budgets

Crop Insurance, Marketing, and Income Prospects on Midwest Grain Farms

Resilience to Strategic Risk

Cost of Production and Farm Policy: Part I

Dry Weather and Drought in the Midwest, Middle-June 2023

Historical Cropping Patterns on Illinois Grain Farms

Nitrogen Fertilizer Prices Stabilize at High Levels in Spring 2023

Brazil Harvesting Record Second Corn Crop, As Prices Fall and Sales Stall

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