Aayush Raj Dhakal and Joe Janzen - US grain storage capacity can in aggregate hold this year's carry-in stocks and expected ...

In today’s article, we examine agricultural lending activity, loan quality, and bank profitability in the second quarter of ...

Agricultural conservation policies include assistance for nutrient management. To the extent that this assistance is intended to encourage farmers to reduce application rates for nutrients, such as ...

Today’s article revisits a simple design for a variable cash lease for farmland in Illinois. A rent factor is applied to direct crop revenues to determine the variable rent level. The variable lease ...

Average nitrogen rates used on farms enrolled in Precision Conservation Management (PCM) have varied little across years. The high nitrogen fertilizer prices suggest that application rates above ...

The current ratio is commonly used to measure a farm’s liquidity position. The current ratio is computed by dividing current assets by current liabilities. Current assets include cash, accounts ...

Tight margins have led to downward pressure on rental rates for farmland in Illinois. The average cash rental rate reported by the USDA for cropland in Illinois was $261 per acre for 2026, a small ...

The Margin Coverage Option (MCO) is an area-based crop insurance endorsement that provides protection against operating margin shortfalls, which can be driven by revenue decreases, cost increases or a ...

This article examines foreign ownership of US farmland and introduces an interactive mapping utility developed by the TIAA Center for Farmland Research that allows identification and delineation of ...

Corn harvest has started in Illinois. On Monday, September 14, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service estimated corn harvest in the state was already 8% complete in its weekly Crop Progress ...

Since 2017, we’ve provided annual updates to a simple formula for calculating the average cash rent for a piece of farmland based on its average soil productivity and location within in Illinois (see ...

Lower farmland values have long been considered a competitive advantage for Brazilian agriculture relative to U.S. agriculture (Colussi and Langemeier, 2026). However, strong farm profits, supported ...