Wednesday, February 12, 2025 9:20AM CST The Soybean Innovation Lab, based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was formed in 2011 to provide researchers and organizations with the resources needed to advance soybean development. The lab is comprised of over 100 technical soybean experts...
Grain Marketing Signals Jan 16, 2025 The political football known as the Farm Bill has not been acted upon by Congress, and that’s severely impacting farmers around the country. This inaction significantly affects policy, markets, risk management, and the many other factors necessary for farmers...
The relative importance of these two factors in Illinois cash grain farmers' machinery investment decisions is studied in an experimental setting.; Operators of seven commercial farms in central Illinois with differing tenure, leverage and machinery complement age characteristics participated. Financial ...
The marginal propensity to consume (MPC) for a sample of eighteen Illinois farms over the 1979-86 period is determined. Four consumption models were estimated using disposable household income plus depreciation as the measure of income. Estimated short-run MPCs ranged from 0.007 to 0.020, while ...
100 years of experience in the grain industry and that time has been focused on farmers in central Illinois. Russ Bauer and Larry Poppe had several years of Ag sales and service experience before starting Automated Agri-Systems in 1983. They rented a building in LeRoy, Illinois and the two ...
To evaluate the potential economic value of climate forecasts in East-Central Illinois, Mjelde et al. (1988) used a dynamic programming model where farmers make sequential decisions of inputs over time. Their findings indicated that seasonal forecasts have potential to enhance the returns from crop...
Our results show that farmers practicing the intensified double rice system (boro-fallow-aman) can produce 3.70 and 3.97 t ha−1 more grain compared to aman season rice alone within and outside polders, respectively. To reduce the strain on groundwater resources in the north of Bangladesh, ...
sustainable practices (Bell2004; Warner2007; Blesh and Wolf2014; Carlisle2016; Blesh and Galt2017). In a study of Iowa grain farmers by Blesh and Wolf (2014), almost all listed PFI as an important resource for transitioning towards sustainability. The in-depth ethnographic research on PFI from...
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Farmer walks through his soy fields in Harvard, Illinois. Nova Safo | AFP | Getty Images Frustrated with Central American migration, the White House last Thursday announced theU.S. plans to slap 5% tariffs on Mexican goods, including cars, beer, tequila, as well as fruits and vege...