Significant increases in energy and fertilizer costs have experts eyeing long-term impacts on corn acreage and farmer ...

CHAMPAIGN — Farmers can expect another year of high yields and low prices, extending the lean cycle they've been in. "I would describe it as definitely lean times as far as margins, but beginning to ...

With farm machinery expenses at an all-time high, farmers might need to take a closer look at the numbers before purchasing machinery. A recent analysis by the University of Illinois farmdoc team ...

He is a founding member of the university’s award-winning farmdoc digital product, which distributes ag marketing and management information to farmers and folks in the industry. As an ag economics ...

Longer term prices continue to look less optimistic for farmers, and farmdoc daily economists suggest farmers be prudent in starting to budget for much lower prices. In a farmdoc daily report titled, ...

By Gerveni, M., T. Hubbs and S. Irwin, farmdoc daily (13):57, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 29, 2023. Permalink The continued ...

URBANA – Four years ago, a crazy idea was hatched: post an original article that analyzed an aspect of Corn Belt farm economics every day. Today, University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel ...

At the recent Corn and Soybean Classic held in January, University of Illinois Extension specialists presented quite a bit of information that was both informative as well as of economic importance.