Weekly Outlook Newsletters

Larger Soybean and Smaller Corn Crop Forecasts (D. Good)

Harvest to Accelerate (D. Good)

Marketing and Outlook Briefs

2009 Final Corn and Soybean Yield Forecasts (S. Irwin, D. Good and M. Tannura)

Illinois Farm Economics: Facts and Opinions (FEFOs)

Late Planting Wheat and Crop Insurance (G. Schnitkey)

Drying Costs and Shrink Losses Are Large in 2009 (G. Schnitkey)

A Historic Look at Illinois Farm Real Estate Values (B. Zwilling )

Crop Priority in ACRE (G. Schnitkey)

Corn and Soybean Returns in 2009 and 2010 (G. Schnitkey and N. Paulson)

ACRE Will Likely Pay More than the Traditional Alternative for Receiving Farm Commodity Payments (G. Schnitkey and N. Paulson)

Agrinews Columns

Stable Land Prices (G. Schnitkey)

Anticipating the Size of South American Crops (D. Good)

Illinois Farmland in Perspective (B.J. Sherrick and P.N. Ellinger)

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U of I Extension Production Ag Calendar

A comprehensive calendar of events. To view the page and download, please click here

2009 Illinois Farm Economics Summit

The roller coaster ride continued this past year for Illinois agriculture, unfortunately, with more dips than rises. The University of Illinois Extension and members of the farmdoc team from the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics will be holding a series meetings to address farm profitability outlook from several perspectives, including the direction of prices, outlook for farm returns, impact of speculation on farmer marketing decisions, climate change policy, farm programs and crop insurance, and implications of the economic crisis for agriculture. The format for the meeting will be fast-paced and allow plenty of time for questions from the audience.

• December 14, 2009 Champaign,IL
• December 15, 2009 Bloomington,IL
• December 16, 2009 Galesburg, IL
• December 17, 2009 Rochelle, IL
• December 18, 2009 Mt. Vernon, IL

More information and registration forms available here.

FAST Spreadsheet Updates

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• New Company Simulator
• Specialty Commodity Breakeven Analysis
• Marketing and Crop Insurance Risk Model
• Cost of Feedstuffs Calculator
• 2010 Crop Insurance Decision Tool
• Personal Financial Statements
• Farm Rent Evaluator
• Crop Budgeting Tool
• Breakeven Analysis
• Corn-Soybeans Rotation Tool
• Corn-Soybeans-Wheat Rotation Tool