Machinery Cost of Operations Estimates
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Machinery Economics
Analyzes the cost of completing fieldwork and generates machinery costs.
Illinois Crop Budgets and Historic Returns
2026 Budgets For All Regions
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2025 Budgets For All Regions
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Costs to Produce Corn and Soybeans in Illinois—2024
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2024 Budgets For All Regions
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2023 Budgets For All Regions
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2022 Budgets For All Regions
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2020 Cost to Produce Corn and Soybeans in Illinois
2021 Budgets For All Regions
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2020 Budgets For All Regions
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2019 Budgets For All Regions
2013 – 2016 Budgets For All Regions
2018 Budgets For All Regions
2017 Budgets For All Regions
2016 Budgets For All Regions
Illinois Rental Fact Sheets
Variable Cash Rent Leasing Fact Sheet
Index Numbers of Illinois Farmland Values
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Commodity Title Alternatives
January 11, 2022
Farmers will again have until March 15 to make commodity title program selections. Given the current high prices, commodity title payments are not expected from any program option...
December 12, 2018
On Monday December 10, 2018, the House and Senate conference committee released the conference report for the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018...
September 24, 2019
Farmers and landowners can now decide whether to receive commodity title payments from either Agricultural Risk Coverage at the county...
September 17, 2019
Farmers and landowners can now make the decision between farm programs, receiving commodity title payments...
November 5, 2019
The 2018 Farm Bill What-If Tool has been released (click here to download). This Microsoft Excel spreadsheet will estimate Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agricultural Risk Coverage at the county level...
October 29, 2019
ARC-IC (Agriculture Risk Coverage – Individual) has received less attention than ARC-CO (ARC – County) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage). ARC-IC is operationally more complex...
January 7, 2020
Agricultural Risk Coverage at the Individual Level (ARC-IC) should be considered as a commodity title alternative for 2019 and 2020 in two special cases...
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The Gardner Payment Calculator provides estimates of expected payments and likelihood of payments for ARC-CO and PLC. Payment estimates are provided for the program years from 2019 to 2023. Users can select the state, county, and crop combination that they wish to consider.
If you are having trouble registering please view the faq or watch the video below.
This program calculates Agricultural Risk Coverage for County Coverage (ARC-CO), Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments, and ARC at the Individual Level (ARC-IC). County yields and market year average (MYA) prices are brought in for a user-specified state-county-crop combination. Users then can change 2018 through 2020 county yields and prices to see ARC-CO and PLC payments under those yields and prices.
As an alternative to the executable tool you can download the spreadsheet here.