Collected Publications for Carl Zulauf

Net Return to Storing US Corn and Soybeans Since 1973

Relationships between Average Cash Rents and Soil Productivity

Annual Cost of Storing US Corn and Soybeans Since 1973

Revised Variable Cash Lease Parameters

Margin Coverage Option (MCO) Historical Analysis

A New Area-Based Crop Insurance Product: MCO (Margin Coverage Option)

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 4 – Summary and Implications

Considerations for Setting 2026 Cash Rents

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

Machinery Cost Estimates for 2025

Grains and Oilseeds: Part 2 – United States

Comparing Returns to Owned vs Cash Rented Farmland

Grains and Oilseeds: Part I – China and South America

2026 Illinois Crop Budgets

Optimizing Phosphorus Fertilizer Use: Evidence from Michigan Corn Production

Fertilizer Decisions for the 2026 Crop Year

Support Price, Market Price, and the 21st Century

Projections of Commodity Program Payments for Illinois in 2024 and 2025

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

Crop Insurance, 2025 Farm Bill, and Mission Creep

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

The New Base Acre Provisions in the 2025 Farm Bill

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

Response to the Increase in 2025 Crop ECO Premium Subsidy

Reconciliation Bill Proposals to Add Base Acres

Declining Yield Variability and 2025 US Corn and Soybean Yield Distribution

Dramatic Difference in Expected Yields between Corn, Soybeans, and Cotton for Area-Based Insurance Products

2024 County Corn and Soybean Yields from the Risk Management Agency

Crop Insurance, Premium Subsidies, and Soybean-Corn Disparity

The House Reconciliation Bill Proposal for SCO: Income Support for High-Risk Farmland

Spring Revision to 2025 Illinois Crop Budgets

Impacts of Premium Support Increase of Basic and Optional Units in House Reconciliation Bill

Reviewing the CBO Score of the House Reconciliation Bill

Spending Impacts of PLC and ARC-CO in House Agriculture Reconciliation Bill

Reviewing the House Agriculture Committee’s Reconciliation Bill

2024 NASS County Corn and Soybean Yields

Corn-to-Soybean Yield Ratios Across Midwestern States

Are US Crop Production Costs High?

2024 Corn and Soybean Yields

Comparing Breakeven Prices for Soybeans and Corn in Illinois Since 2000

US Crop Agriculture’s Government Payment Trap

Countercyclical Performance of Commodity, Insurance, and Ad Hoc Crop Programs

2025 Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat Prospective Plantings in a Longer-Run Context

Demise of the US Countercyclical Crop Safety Net

Projected Corn versus Soybean Returns in Illinois for 2025

Self-Insurance by US Farmers

Projected Farm Income for 2025: Importance of Rental Arrangements on Farm Income

US Farm Program Crops in the Planting Flexibility Era

The 2025 Emergency Commodity Assistance Program

War and Crop Production in Ukraine and Russia

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