Collected Publications for Gary Schnitkey

Cash Requirements of Owned Farmland: 2025 vs. 2005

2024 Crop Safety Net Payments: Performance of Contemporary Ad Hoc Assistance

Large Increase in Machinery Costs Suggests Need to Reconsider Machinery Purchase Decisions

Relationships between Average Cash Rents and Soil Productivity

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

Fertilizer Decisions for the 2026 Crop Year

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

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

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

Factors Influencing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates and Timing in Illinois

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

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

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

Brazil’s 2024–25 Corn Harvest Grows, But Exports Projected to Decrease

Spring Revision to 2025 Illinois Crop Budgets

Mapping Soybean Yield Risk: Regional Contrasts in the U.S. and Brazil

Trends in Fertilizer Use and Efficiency in the U.S.

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

Trade Conflicts and Long-Term Consequences: Are Soybeans Doomed to Repeat History?

Reviewing the House Agriculture Committee’s Reconciliation Bill

2024 NASS County Corn and Soybean Yields

Brazil and China’s Strong Ag Relationship: Opportunity or Overdependence?

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

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