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Farm Bill What-If Tool
This program calculates Agricultural Risk Coverage for County Coverage (ARC-CO), Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments, and ARC at the Individual Level (ARC-IC). County yields and market year average (MYA) prices…
Crop Insurance Decision Tool
This program calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in midwest and southeast states. Learn…
Planting Decision Model
With this program, the user can: 1) estimate the costs of planting corn and soybeans by planting date, 2) estimate the net returns from replanting, 3) prevented planting payments, and…
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Farm Absorption Capacity and Producer Sentiment
Agility and absorption capacity represent two distinct strategies through which a farm builds resilience (Lippsmeyer and Langemeier, 2023). Agility is a farm’s ability to spot and exploit market changes in…
Trying to Reason with A Midterm Election Earthquake
Well, the American electorate certainly sent a message in the midterm elections on Tuesday. As of this writing, Democrats have won a substantial majority in the House of Representatives, 252…
Seed, Fertilizer, and Pesticide Costs: Comparing U.S. and Brazilian Soybean Farms
Soybean farmers in both countries have little control over the prices they receive. Because individual farms sell in the same global market, their ability to compete depends largely on how much it costs them to produce a crop. This article compares what nine typical farms in the U.S. and Brazil spent on seed, fertilizer, and pesticides over five years, showing where input costs differ between the two countries and discussing factors that may explain those differences.
Convergence of Financial Performance
A recent article examined differences in liquidity and repayment capacity for different sized crop farms (Langemeier, 2026). This article examines trends in the operating profit margins, asset turnover ratios, and…
Smaller Loans Drive Decline in Non-Real Estate Farm Lending at Commercial Banks in Q3 2026
Non-real estate farm loan volume at commercial banks fell 25.0% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2026. A sharp contraction in average loan sizes drove the decline, even as the total number of loan originations increased. Average maturities shortened across categories, most notably for farm machinery and equipment financing, while interest rates on these loans eased modestly from 2025 levels yet remained well above what they were in 2020.