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Crops

Leasing Principles for Cropland

When examining the leasing option, a farm needs to decide, along with the landowner, whether they want to use a cash lease, a crop share lease, or a flexible cash lease.

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Late Corn & Soybean Planting Decisions

Recorded June 6, 2019 | As a follow-up to their previous webinar, Purdue agricultural economists James Mintert and Michael Langemeier analyze the potential returns from taking the Prevented Planting option for corn and compare it to potential returns from delayed planting of both corn and soybeans, under a couple of different scenarios.

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Soybean Storage Returns: Implications for Storage and Pricing Decisions

Soybean storage returns are examined in this article. The method of measuring those returns is similar to corn. Please read the corn storage return article in this publication for that information. One difference is that the harvest price for soybeans was assumed to be the cash prices in the first two weeks of October, while the corn harvest price was assumed to be the last two weeks of October.

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A Closer Look at Recent Variability in On-Farm Corn Storage Returns

The corn and soybeans storage returns articles examine long run averages. These can be somewhat misleading when there is a lot of variation from year to year. For this reason we are providing a peek at the weekly speculative on-farm corn returns data for the last ten years.

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Corn Storage Returns: Implications for Storage and Pricing Decisions

Grain storage is an important marketing function that provides “time value” to the grain. Grain production occurs at harvest time, but usage is spread throughout the marketing year. Thus storage is required to remove the harvest surplus and then to allocate that surplus to users in an orderly manner until the next harvest.

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Comparing Crop Costs and Returns Across the Globe

Examining the competitiveness of crop production in different regions of the world is difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions.f-

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Delayed Corn & Soybean Planting Decisions

Recorded May 23, 2019 | Purdue agricultural economists James Mintert and Michael Langemeier join Purdue agronomists, Bob Nielsen and Shaun Casteel to discuss crop insurance alternatives as well as corn and soybean agronomic management considerations.

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International Benchmarks for Wheat Production (2019)

We examine the competitiveness of wheat production for important international wheat regions using 2013 to 2017 data from the agri benchmark network.

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International Benchmarks for Soybean Production (2019)

We examine the competitiveness of soybean production for important international soybean regions using 2013 to 2017 data from the agri benchmark network.

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International Benchmarks for Corn Production (2019)

We examine the competitiveness of corn production for important international corn regions using 2013 to 2017 data from the agri benchmark network.

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