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US Average Farm Price Received Database

Average farm price received data, for multiple commodities, in the US for the period 1960 to present. File is Microsoft Excel format.
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lllinois Average Farm Price Received Database

Average farm price received data, for multiple commodities, in the state of Illinois for the period 1960 to present. File is Microsoft Excel format.
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A hotter and (mostly) drier fall is capping off a strong growing season helping speed the harvest of an expected bumper crop. In the cab, many farmers are also likely planning for next year; like scientists, they use data, observations, and experience to tweak the formulas for optimal outcomes. To those ends, this article introduces a series discussing innovations in research and extension by the DIRECT4AG project (USDA-REEIS).

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“For FY2025 — which began Oct. 1 — USDA announced that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) would make $7.7 billion available to assist with conservation practices, $5.7 billion from the additional funding in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. With Congress in recess for the upcoming November election, the Farm Bill remains stalled, though IRA and Farm Bill conservation funding continue through the uncertainties. This article reviews potential tradeoffs between the two.

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Net incomes on many Midwest grain farms will be negative in 2024, some of the lowest in the past thirty years. Low incomes could continue into future years. Herein, we present eight strategies for dealing with low incomes. Also, prospects for ad hoc Federal payments are discussed. Ad hoc disaster payments could present issues regarding slowing necessary economic adjustments within the agricultural sector.

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Successful Farming’s Chuck Abbott reported that “on the same day the CDC confirmed the third human case of bird flu in California, state officials said Wednesday that they had identified…

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