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Corn and Soybean Markets Shrug Off Bearish USDA Figures

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 4 – Summary and Implications

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Is Conservation a Silver Lining?

The Soybean Industry Response to the Renewable Diesel Boom, Part 2: Squeezing More Oil from the Soybean Crush

Considerations for Setting 2026 Cash Rents

Tracking Public Perceptions of MAHA

Financial Stress on Crop Farms: Who Is Most at Risk in the 2024–26 Downturn?

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #1

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 3 – Rest-of-the-World

Machinery Cost Estimates for 2025

Factors Impacting Farm Growth

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #2

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 2 – United States

Comparing Returns to Owned vs Cash Rented Farmland

The Soybean Industry Response to the Renewable Diesel Boom, Part 1: the Long-Run Evolution of Oilseed Crushing

Grains and Oilseeds: Part I – China and South America

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #3

Comparing Net Returns for Alternative Leasing Arrangements

2026 Illinois Crop Budgets

Yes, There Are a Lot of Corn Acres: Evidence from FSA Acreage Data

Lower Grain Prices Lead to Lower Earnings for Grain Farms in 2024; Livestock Sector Sees Gains

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #4

Optimizing Phosphorus Fertilizer Use: Evidence from Michigan Corn Production

Fertilizer Decisions for the 2026 Crop Year

Illinois Farm Real Estate Values Hold Strong in 2025, Even with Lower Farm Incomes

U.S. Tariffs on Brazil: Potential Implications for Agricultural Trade and Consumers

Support Price, Market Price, and the 21st Century

Projections of Commodity Program Payments for Illinois in 2024 and 2025

Adoption of Conservation Practices and Farm Goals

The Reconciliation Farm Bill: The Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #5

Support Price, Cost of Production, and the 21st Century

U.S. Fertilizer Industry in Global Markets: Structure and Supply Risks

Are Cattle Inventories Turning the Corner?

The Corn Market Works to Explain Itself

Farm Goals

Factors Influencing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates and Timing in Illinois

Crop Insurance, 2025 Farm Bill, and Mission Creep

How Farm Size Affects Crop and Equipment Costs in Illinois?

The Farm Bill in Reconciliation: Loophole as Rosetta Stone; Review and Comment

The role of H-2A Workers in Illinois

Impacts of the Commodity Title Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) for Midwestern Farms in 2025

Tar Spot on the Move: Tracking and Managing an Established Corn Threat in Illinois

The New Base Acre Provisions in the 2025 Farm Bill

The Growing Role of H-2A Workers in U.S. Agriculture

2025 Grain Farm Return Prospects at the Beginning of July with a New Commodity Title

Impact of Leverage on Rates of Return

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

Response to the Increase in 2025 Crop ECO Premium Subsidy

Reconciliation Bill Proposals to Add Base Acres

Largest June Hog Herd Since 2020 & Smallest Breeding Herd Since 2015!

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