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Crop Insurance Decision Tool
This program calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in midwest and southeast states. Learn…
Farm Projection Tool
This program calculates per-acre budgets for different crops and a whole farm budget and includes breakevens. Projected financial statements and return sensitivities are available. The effects of farm level crop…
Planting Decision Model
With this program, the user can: 1) estimate the costs of planting corn and soybeans by planting date, 2) estimate the net returns from replanting, 3) prevented planting payments, and…
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Liquidity and Repayment Capacity
Previous articles have examined differences in crop machinery investment, crop machinery costs, and labor standards for different sized crop farms (Langemeier, 2025a; Langemeier, 2025b; Langemeier, 2026). This article examines trends…
Detecting Tillage Practices from Space: A New Approach to Monitoring Conservation Agriculture in the US Midwest
From 2014 to 2023, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) invested a total of $133.7 million in no-till and reduce till practices, out of a total of $10 billion in…
Rethinking Phosphorus and Potassium, Part 3: Economics
Grain nutrient concentrations can vary across the farm and may provide an opportunity to cut input costs this fall. Soil test values can vary due to sampling time and lab procedures; it may be worthwhile to monitor the variability of soil test values by sampling at different timepoints post-harvest and sending the same sample (labeled differently) to the lab before committing to a fertilization strategy this fall.
Managing the Herd: Balancing Anticipated Productivity with Softening Demand
The USDA’s September Hogs and Pigs report places the September 1st inventory of all hogs and pigs at 74.3 million head, up 1.60% from revised estimates for last quarter but…