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 ...

The RFS was created under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and was later modified and expanded under The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (farmdoc daily, May 17, 2023). The 2005 version of ...

On June 23, 2026, Senator John Boozman (R-AR), chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (ANF), released legislative text for the unfinished provisions of the ...

The empirical findings in this article raise a question about whether a foundation principle of US commodity policy holds; specifically, that payments made on historical base acres are sufficiently ...

Nitrogen fertilizer prices are positively related to corn and natural gas prices. Because of current high corn and natural gas prices, one would expect nitrogen prices also to be high. However, in ...

The U.S. is a major player in agriculture and accounts for approximately 10-15% of total global fertilizer consumption. US fertilizer consumption needs are met through a mix of domestic production and ...

We begin the analysis by reviewing the discussion in our previous farmdoc daily article (May 24, 2023) about the difference between binding and non-binding biofuel mandates. Figure 1 presents standard ...