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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The updates for crop insurance refine the crop insurance visualizations, allowing users to view data at the county level, by major commodity (corn, cotton, sorghum, peanuts, rice, soybeans, wheat, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based on records from 1,927 certified usable farms enrolled in the Illinois Farm Business Farm Management Association (FBFM), average returns to farm operators’ labor and management increased in every ...

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 ...