The high cost to produce US crops remains a topic of concern and key farm policy factor in 2025. This article examines the change in cost by input category since…| farmdoc daily
This article presents results from a recent survey pertaining to farm goals. Even though approximately 15% of respondents focused on short-term financial gains, long-run planning was positively related to each of the five goals: stable income, conservation, profit maximization, farm transfer, and reduction in farm debt. Respondents that focused more on long-run goals tended to be less risk averse than respondents that focused on short-term financial gains.| farmdoc daily
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey - This article compares economic loss with safety net payments for the nine large acreage crops that USDA, ERS reports a cost of production. 2024 crop safety net assistance is estimated to reduce the nine crop’s collective economic loss from 17% to slightly more than 3% of total economic cost. Coverage of individual crop economic loss varies widely, ranging from 180% (payments exceed economic loss by 80 percentage points) to 45...| farmdoc daily