Getting Started
Strategic Crop Marketing
Improve your crop marketing skills – understand basis, use historical data to forecast, take advantage of storage hedging, and learn seasonal patterns to improve returns.
Signature Publication
Crop Budgeting
The Purdue Crop Cost and Return Guide offers farmers a trusted resource to project financials, plan budgets, and evaluate crop decisions for the upcoming year. Examine gross revenue, costs, and earnings for crop enterprises using our spreadsheet tool.
When Renting
Rental Agreements for Facilities
Examines the major considerations in developing rental agreements for crop and livestock buildings and facilities from both the owner’s and operator’s points of view.
Crop Basis Tool
Access Corn & Soybean Basis Data for Local Markets
Use regional, ethanol plant, soybean processor, or Ohio River basis to view up-to-date on current market information and compare to historical trends.
Key Publications
Price Distribution Tool
Estimate the Probability Distribution of Corn & Soybean Prices
The Illinois Price Distribution Tool, by farmdoc, uses current option market prices to derive estimates of prices at the expiration of an underlying corn and soybean futures contracts.
Marketing Grain
