Our 2020 Land Values & Lease Trends Report is now available as a free download! Find it here and use the password "ispfmra" to complete the download.| Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers
Scott Irwin and Darrel Good - Scott Irwin - In today's farmdoc daily article, we review the last 17 years of Illinois corn, soybean, and wheat prices to evaluate “new era” projections that farmdoc first made in September 2008. Our original projections of the average monthly prices for the three crops turned out to be remarkably accurate, with less than 2% error in each case. It is clear that a truly new era in nominal corn, soybeans, and wheat prices started in the Fall of 2006 and that t...| farmdoc daily
Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, Krista Swanson, Jonathan Coppess, and Jim Baltz - Gary Schnitkey -| farmdoc daily
Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Brad Zwilling, and Carl Zulauf - Today’s farmdoc daily article highlights our first release of 2026 crop budgets for Illinois. Despite significant increases in expected Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments due to passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), negative average returns are expected to continue for the fourth straight crop year for producers using corn and soybean rotations on cash rented farmland across all ...| farmdoc daily
