Collected Publications for Management

Corn Seed Costs from 1995 to 2014

Big Data in Farming: Why Matters!

2014 ARC-CO Payments: Release of 2014 County Yields

International Benchmarks for Corn Production

Precision Agriculture: Not the Same as Big Data But…

2015 Harvest Prices and Estimated 2016 Projected Prices

Big Data: More Than a Lot of Numbers!

Farmer Balance Sheets Given Farmland Price Decreases

ARC-CO and PLC Payment Indicators for 2015 Crop Year, October WASDE

Using Enterprise Budgets to Compute Crop Breakeven Prices

2016 Farmland Price Outlook

When Creating 2016 Budgets, Keep In Mind Family Living Costs

Taking Losses on Cash Rent Farmland to Avoid Losing Farmland: A Risky Strategy

Significant Reductions in Working Capital Likely in 2015 on Grain Farms

Feed Cost Indices for Swine Enterprises

Per Acre Net Cash Return to U.S. Corn and Soybeans since 1975: Part I

Revision to 2016 Crop Budgets: Lower Projected Returns

Decreasing 2016 Cash Rents on Professionally Managed Farmland and Lags in Cash Rent Changes

Benchmarking Machinery Investment and Cost

Revised 2015 Corn and Soybean Return Estimates

Parameters for a 2016 Cash Rent with Bonus

What Happens When Food Marketers Require Restrictive Farming Practices?

Cutting $100 per Acre in Costs for Corn and Soybeans

Commodity Program and Crop Insurance Payments Down as a Percent of Crop Revenue

2016 ARC-CO Payment Estimates for 2016 Cash Rent Bids

Magnitude of Needed Decreases in 2016 Cash Rents

Cost Cutting for 2016: Budgeting for $4 Corn and $9.25 Soybeans

Choices Given Low Projected Grain Farm Net Income in 2015

Projected 2015 Net Incomes on Grain Farms

Projected 2015 Net Income on a 1,500 Acre Grain Farm

Projected 2016 Crop Returns: Continuing Need to Adjust to Lower Returns

Soybean Prevented Planted Acres: Historical Background and Implications for 2015

Will Cooler Heads Prevail?

Extent of Need to Reduce Capital Purchases

Cost to Produce Corn and Soybeans in Illinois – 2014

Perspectives on Commodity Program Choices Under the 2014 Farm Bill

Working Capital: Preserve It or Use It?

Crop Insurance Loss Performance in 2014

Marketing Gains Impacts on 2014 and 2015 Net Incomes on Grain Farms

Negative Returns and Downward Pressure on Cash Rents

Farmland Returns in 2015

Diesel Fuel Prices and Fuel Costs on Illinois Farms

2015 Gross Revenues for Corn: Likely Characteristics of Low, Middle and High Revenue Years

Projected 2015 Corn Revenue with Comparisons to Revenues from 2010 to 2014

Costs and Returns for Illinois Beef Producers in 2013

2014 Loss Experience for Revenue Protection on Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat

Is the Corn Belt Farm Economy too Specialized?

2015 Planting Intentions: Fertilizer, Seed, and Pesticide Manufacturers Dodge a Bullet

Expected Corn and Soybean Returns and Shifts in Acres

Program Choice under the 2014 Farm Bill with all Available Price and Yield Information

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