Collected Publications for Gary Schnitkey

2017 Crop Budgets and Current Prices Say Switch to Soybeans and Expect Low Returns

2016 Gross Revenue and Income Projections for Corn and Soybeans in Central Illinois

ARC-CO Payment Timing and Cash Rent Bidding

First Projections of 2016 ARC-CO Payments

Early Thoughts: 2016 Election Results and the Next Farm Bill

Cash Rent as a Percent of Farmland Price

Baseline for Next Farm Bill’s Crop Commodity Programs: An Early Perspective

2016 Harvest Prices and High Yields Imply Low Crop Insurance Payments in Illinois

Further Discussion of the ARC-CO Program and Revenue-Based Farm Policy

Soybean Yields in Illinois

2015 ARC-CO Payments for Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat

Corn and Soybean Acres in Illinois

Financial Performance of Illinois Grain Farms: Deterioration in 2015

Comparing Input Price Changes during Multiple Year Declines: Rent as an Outlier in the Current Decline

2017 Crop Budgets, 2016 Crop Returns and 2016 Incomes

Comparing Revenue and Price Declines during Recent Multiple Year Declines

Working Capital Buffers Gone at End of 2016

2016 County Cash Rents

Break-Even Levels for Corn and Soybeans to Have the Same Profitability

Explaining ARC-CO Payments with Illustrations for the 2016 and 2017 Crops

The Danger of Refinancing

Will Crop Insurance Pay in 2016?

What a Difference $.50 (or a Summer) Makes

2015 Estimated ARC-CO Payments

Continued Downward Pressure on 2017 Cash Rent

2016 Cash Rents and Land Values for Illinois

Corn and Soybean Revenue Projections for 2016 and 2017

Growth in Crop Costs and Cash Rents

County-Farm Loss Basis: Evidence from Illinois and Kansas Farm Management Data

Changes in Where Corn Is Grown in the Last Ten Years

Growing Season Crop Losses since 1978 on the Same Illinois and Kansas Farms

Growth Rates of Fertilizer, Pesticide, and Seed Costs over Time

Consider Planting Less Corn and More Soybeans in 2017

Costs and Benefits of Cover Crops: An Example with Cereal Rye

Use of the SCO and STAX Insurance Programs in 2015

Release of Revised 2016 Illinois Crop Budgets

Increasing Crop Insurance Coverage Levels: An Assessment

Working Capital Changes Projected for Grain Farms in 2016: Before and After Recent Price Changes

Anhydrous Ammonia, Corn, and Natural Gas Prices Over Time

Changes in Yields, Acres, and Prices of Cereal Grains over Time in the United States

Estimated 2016 ARC-CO Payments

2015 Estimated ARC-CO Payments

Late Planting Decisions in 2016

Crop Insurance Performance in 2015: Low Losses Predominate

2016 Marketing Gain Impacts on Income Statements Will be Limited

2015 ARP and SCO Payments for Corn and Soybeans in Illinois

2016 Net Farm Income Projections Under Different Price Scenarios

2016 Corn and Soybean Returns Revisited

Crop Insurance Guarantees Compared to Total Costs Over Time

Averages and Seasonality of Prices for Nitrogen Fertilizers

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