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Evaluating the Historical Variability of Corn’s Market Year Average Price and Projecting Price Loss Coverage Payments

May 13, 2014
Gary Schnitkey and Darrel Good

2013 Crop Insurance Performance in Illinois

May 6, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Coverage Levels on Crop Insurance and the SCO Alternative

April 29, 2014
Gary Schnitkey and Bruce Sherrick

Illinois Prospective Plantings in 2014 with Historical Comparisons

April 22, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Monthly Fertilizer Prices: Spring 2014 with Comparisons to 2009 through 2013

April 15, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Recent Price Changes on Harvest-time Corn and Soybean Contracts

April 8, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Cash Rents on Professionally Managed Farmland Projected Down in 2014

April 1, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Causes of High U.S. Corn Yields: Evaluation of County Yields

March 25, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Soybean-to-Corn Price Ratios in Spring and Fall

March 20, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Crop Insurance Premium Comparisons, Illinois 2014

March 11, 2014
Bruce J. Sherrick and Gary D. Schnitkey

Evaluating Crop Insurance Options for 2014

March 4, 2014
Gary Schnitkey and Bruce Sherrick

Controlling Costs with Lower Crop Revenues: Cash Rents

February 25, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Controlling Costs with Lower Crop Revenues: Machinery Costs

February 18, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

2014 Crop Insurance Decisions: The 2014 Farm Bill and 2014 Product Recommendations

February 11, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Controlling Costs with Lower Crop Revenues: Direct Costs

February 4, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Controlling Costs with Lower Crop Revenues: Fertilizer Costs

January 28, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Controlling Costs With Lower Crop Revenues: Historical Overview

January 22, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Coverage Level Choices for Revenue Protection in 2014

January 14, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Area Risk Protection Insurance Policy: Comparison to Group Plans

January 7, 2014
Gary Schnitkey

Estimated GRIP Payments for 2013

December 23, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Crop Insurance Premiums and Guarantee Levels for 2014

December 10, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

High Cash Rents and Farmer Returns

December 3, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Management Implications of Non-Decreasing Interest Rates

November 26, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Lower Crop Insurance Guarantees in 2014

November 19, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Break-Even Soybean Prices: History and Projections

November 12, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Break-Even Corn Prices: History and Projections

November 5, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Proportion of Farms with High Cash Rent Percentages and Levels

October 29, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Corn and Soybean Returns Suggest Stable Illinois Acreages

October 22, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

The 2012 Drought, Net Incomes with and without Insurance, and a Policy Concern

October 15, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Range in Farm Yields during the 2012 Drought Year

October 8, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Projected 2013 and 2014 Operator and Farmland Returns

October 1, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Corn-to-Soybean Yield Ratios: History and the Future

September 24, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

2013 Projected Soybean Yields Compared to Trend Yields

September 17, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

2013 County Cash Rents: Levels, Variability, and 2014 Cash Rent Decisions

September 10, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Farm Managers See More Stable Farmland Prices

September 4, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Wheat Returns on Southern Illinois Farms

August 27, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Hedging the 2013 Corn and Soybean Crop Given Crop Insurance

August 20, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Share-Rent Landowner Returns Compared to Cash Rents

August 13, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Fertilizer Costs Move Down

August 6, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

2014 Crop Budgets

July 30, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Farmland Ownership and Rental Percentages in Illinois: A 2007 to 2012 Perspective

July 23, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Returns and Cash Rents given $4.80 Corn and $10.75 Soybean Prices

July 16, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

2013 Net Incomes for Grain Farms Likely Below Levels in Recent Years

July 10, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Reductions in Insurance Guarantees Due to Lower 2013 Yields

July 2, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Chinese and U.S. Pork Consumption and Production

June 25, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Prevented Planting Payments versus Planting Soybeans

June 18, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Release of Revenue and Costs for Corn, Soybeans, Wheat, and Double-Crop Soybeans

June 13, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Non-land Costs Continue to Increase

June 4, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Evaluating Taking Prevented Planting Payments for Corn

May 30, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

Farmland Prices and Interest Rates

May 21, 2013
Gary Schnitkey

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