Farm Management Tour: July 17, 2024

Learn about innovative farm management strategies, new technologies for improving efficiency and productivity, ways to ensure a successful transition of farm operations to the next generation. Join us at the 91st annual Purdue Farm Management Tour and reception honoring the 2024 Indiana Master Farmers in Randolph County (Winchester), Indiana on Wednesday, July 17th.

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Projected Corn and Soybean Breakeven Prices

The costs that should be included in enterprise budgets and breakeven prices for corn and soybeans on high productivity soil in Indiana.

Spring 2018 Crop Outlook

Recorded March 30, 2018 | Purdue ag. economists Chris Hurt, Michael Langemeier and Jim Mintert review the crop outlook following the March 30th release of USDA’s Planting Intentions & Grain Stocks reports.

2018 Crop Cost and Return Guide

The Purdue Crop Cost and Return Guide offers farmers a resource to project financials for the coming cropping year. These are the March 2018 crop budget estimations.

Making Your 2018 Crop Insurance Decisions

Recorded March 1, 2018 | Purdue ag economists Michael Langemeier & Jim Mintert discuss 2018 corn and soybean crop insurance choices and provide insight into decision making for corn and soybean farmers.

2018 Purdue Crop Cost & Return Guide

The 2018 Purdue Crop Cost and Return Guide gives estimated costs for planting, growing and harvesting corn, soybeans, and wheat, as well as estimated contribution margins and earnings.

Soybeans Pay Bills With Friendly Price Tone

Soybeans have generally been superior to corn in paying the bills in recent years. Yields have been strong and the opportunity to sometimes price at $10 a bushel or higher has provided strong revenue, plus direct costs for beans are much lower than for corn.

2017 Crop Outlook – After USDA’s Crop Acreage Report

Recorded July 3, 2017 | Purdue ag economists Chris Hurt & David Widmar discuss implications of USDA’s June 30 Acreage report on the outlook for corn and soybeans.

Corn and Soybean Storage Returns in a Wild Decade

Given the wide price swings of the past decade what was the impact on storage returns? In an attempt to answer that question this article will estimate the speculative storage returns by year, and on average, over the past decade for a central Indiana farm.

Prevented Planting and Replant Decisions

With corn and soybean planting in the Eastern Corn Belt behind schedule, many farmers are dealing with prevented planting and replant decisions. In response, we have put together materials pertaining to these decisions.

Using Enterprise Budgets to Compute Crop Breakeven Prices

Enterprise budgets are often one of the building blocks to creating a whole-farm plan.

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