The Risk Management Agency has released their final county yields estimates for 2025, providing information needed to calculate payments from area yield insurance plans. Yield losses were sufficient in many areas to trigger ECO or SCO payments on corn, soybean, and wheat acres. Since the harvest prices for all three crops was below the projected insurance price in 2025, an even larger number of counties experienced revenue losses sufficient to trigger ECO and SCO payments.

Agricultural credit conditions in Illinois showed signs of strain in the first quarter of 2026. Although loan demand remained elevated, repayment rates deteriorated, and collateral requirements remained tight across the…

This article compares crop yields, gross revenue, total expense, and net returns for conventional and organic corn and soybeans. Consistent with previous work, organic corn and soybean enterprises had lower crop yields, higher crop prices and gross revenue, higher total expenses, and higher net returns. However, there was a much wider difference in enterprise net returns among organic corn and soybean enterprises than there was among conventional corn and soybean enterprises.

In the first half of the 2026 fiscal year, the Labor Department certified 17% more (H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker) jobs than in the same period the year before.