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URBANA, Ill. – Should cash rents be lowered? If yes, by how much? How much relief will be seen through lower fertilizer and seed prices? What are the prospects for grain prices to recover from current depressed levels? The University of Illinois Extension...

URBANA, Ill.  –This year has seen plummeting crop prices due to record yields alongside skyrocketing livestock prices as a result of the pork virus and drought-ravaged beef. At this year’s Illinois Farm Economics Summit, agricultural economists from...

Last week, revised 2015 Illinois crop budgets were released indicating that operator and land returns would be $244 per acre in central Illinois for high-productivity farmland (farmdoc daily, July 7, 2015). This projected return is used to estimate...

Two new web-based decision tools are now available in the crop insurance section of farmdoc. The ifarm Premium Calculator provides farmer-paid premiums for insurance products on a per acre basis.

Editor’s note: The following was written by Michael Langemeier, with the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture, for the University of Illinois Farmdoc Daily website.