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, ...

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 ...

Illinois has lost 155,000 acres of agricultural land since 2001, which is the most of any Midwestern state, according to a recent study. 64% of the land lost in the Land of Lincoln is due to ...

In a time of tight budgets and volatile prices, producers are understandably focused on the costs and the bottom line. But building and sustaining a thriving farm operation requires more than just ...

In 2011, we started farmdoc daily. The highest value of our work for society turns out to be what we write, and technology allows us to do that every day. Farmdoc is a team of people with experts who ...