Collected Publications for Management

A Discussion of the Sec 199A Deduction and its Potential Impacts on Producers and Grain Marketing Firms

IFES 2017: Crop Economics: Continuing Need to Cut Costs

Impacts of Lowering Coverage Levels and Using Harvest Price Exclusion on Soybeans

Crop Insurance Performance of Soybeans

Changes to 2018 Crop Insurance Rates for Corn and Soybeans

2017 Year End Tax Planning Ideas

Projected Prices for 2018: More of the Same?

Switches in Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat Acres in the U.S. and Illinois

Little Tax Depreciation Exists on Many Illinois Grain Farms

Projected and Harvest Prices in 2017

Forecast of 2017 Net Income on Grain Farms in Illinois: Lower than in 2016 but Better Than Expected

Nitrogen Fertilizer Prices and Costs Lower for 2018

Determining the Average Cash Rent Based on Productivity Index

Cattle Feeding Returns Improving

A Narrowing of the Gap on Corn and Soybean Crop Revenue

Farmers Desires for Enterprise Units Use across County Lines

When Creating 2018 Budgets, Keep In Mind Family Living Costs

Expectations for Corn and Soybean Prices over the Next Five Years

Data and Outlook for Making 2018 Cash Rental Decisions

Red Ink Reappears in the Cattle Finishing Sector

An Example of Combining Margin Protection and Revenue Protection

Evaluating Payments from Margin Protection with Harvest Price Option

Should Users of Revenue Protection Add Margin Protection?

Margin Protection Insurance

Farm Machinery Costs and Custom Rates

Increasing Property Taxes Impact Land Owner Returns and Equilibrium Land Values

Negative Cash Rent Farmland Returns Since 2014 Reduced Farmer Net Incomes

Comparing Economies of Size: Milk vs. Field Crops

Forecast of 2017 Net Income on Grain Farms in Illinois

Illinois Farmland Rents: 2017 State Values and 2018 Outlook

Higher Wages Don’t Always Mean a Higher Standard of Living: Rural Cost-of-Living and Farmworker Wages

2018 Crop Budgets: More of the Same

Illinois Income Tax Changes from P.A. 100-22

Seed Costs for Corn in 2017 and 2018

Fertilizer Costs in 2017 and 2018

2018 Planning Prices for Corn and Soybeans

Use Below $4.00 corn projections for 2017 Income Forecasts

Machinery Cost Estimates for 2017

How Much More Do Capital Purchases on Grain Farms Need to be Reduced?

What is the Impact of Power and Equipment Costs on Illinois Grain Farms?

State Labor Regulations and Labor-Intensive Agriculture

Shifting Corn and Soybean Acres Vary by Farm Size and Region of Illinois

Differences in Revenue and Costs for Higher and Average Return Grain Farms

Modest Income Levels Projected for Grain Farms in 2017

Still too Early to Say Much About Illinois Corn Yields

The Deferred Tax Monster

2016 Crop Insurance Performance: A Very Low Loss Year

Cattle Finishing Net Returns in 2017 – A Bit Different from a Year Ago

Late Planting in 2017

Areas of Above and Below Trend Yields in the Corn-Belt: These Areas Will Change

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