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Conventional and Organic Enterprise Net Returns

CFAP Payments to Date and Possible Future Ad Hoc Farm Payments

How Do Adverse Planting Conditions Affect Crop Insurance Payment Timing?

Cost Management: Harvest Operations

Reviewing USDA Revisions to the Payment Limitation and Eligibility Rules

Using Preliminary FSA Data to Project Final Planted Acreage for Corn and Soybeans

Cutting Fertilizer Rates to Save Costs

Looking at 2020-21 Corn Consumption

Using Preliminary FSA Data to Project Final Prevented Plant Acreage for Corn, Soybeans, and All Crops

Revenue Loss Coverage and Other Farm Safety Net Proposals in an Era of High Ad Hoc Payments

Cost Management: Tillage Operations

Soybeans Rally despite Record Yield Forecast

Slight Increase in Illinois Farm Real Estate Values for 2020

Ethanol Production Profits during the COVID Pandemic

Cash Rents in 2020 and 2021

Corn Bottoming or Taking a Breather?

Comparing Net Returns for Alternative Leasing Arrangements

Weather and the 2020 Illinois Corn and Soybean Crops

Release of 2021 Crop Budgets

Soybean Crop Potential Tempering Demand News

Production Controls & Set Aside Acreage Discussion, Part IV: Reviewing PIK Policies

Ad Hoc Payments: A Leading Indicator of Farm Policy Change

Crop Insurance Performance in 2019

Few Surprises in USDA Cattle Reports

The Food-Energy-Water Nexus and Emerging Agricultural Technologies

The Accuracy of Early Season Crop Weather Model Forecasts of the U.S. Average Soybean Yield

The US Safety Net, Crop Profitability, and a Floor on Cost of Production

2021 Budgeting Using $3.40 Corn and $8.50 Soybean Prices

Revisiting Corn Use for Ethanol

Accumulating Liabilities

The Accuracy of Early Season Crop Weather Model Forecasts of the U.S. Average Corn Yield

Hoping for Rain: Crops at Mid-Season 2020

Illinois Grain Farm Incomes in 2020

Soybean Demand Linked to Economic Recovery

World Market Conditions Suggest Set-Asides Not an Effective Farm Policy for Corn and Soybeans

Understanding the WAOB Crop Weather Model for Soybeans

Soybeans and PLC: Example of the Need for Better Equity among Program Crops

Prevented Plant Impacts on 2019 Illinois Grain Farms Incomes

USDA Surprises Drive Corn Prices Higher

Comparison of a Conventional Crop Rotation with an Organic Forage-Based Crop Rotation

Understanding the WAOB Crop Weather Model for Corn

Land Retirement – Part II: US Role in World Crop Markets and Effectiveness of Retiring US Land

Declines in 2020 Corn and Soybeans Harvest-time Futures Contracts in Perspective

A Bearish Hogs & Pigs Report with Few Bright Spots on the Horizon

Production Controls & Set Aside Acres, Part 1: Reviewing History

Unconditional vs. Conditional Trend Estimates for U.S. Corn and Soybeans

Tradeoff between Short-Term and Long-Term Risk Management Tools: New Study Shows that Crop Insurance May Hinder Agricultural Innovations in Drought-Tolerant Technologies

Expected Harvest Prices for Soybeans in 2020

Anticipating June 1 Corn Stocks

2019 and 2015 through 2019 – Characteristics of Higher Profit Farms

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