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
As farmers think about 2026 cropping plans, step one is to book fall fertilizer. However, those plans are leading to challenging discussions about profitability and what can be applied as a bare minimum.| AgWeb