Agronomy: 2015 Crop and Income Outlook – Conserve Cash Income
This is a presentation summary from the 2015 Illinois Farm Economics Summit (IFES) which occurred December 14-18, 2015. A complete collection of presentations including [...]
Profitability Matters: Looking Ahead to Succession Planning
Aired: January 2016 While lower prices have many farmers focused on their short-term profitability, succession planning is an important key to ensuring the longevity [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: A Southern Illinois Perspective
As we are in the middle of planning the 2016 crop, I am getting a few questions about beans following beans. This is something [...]
Agronomy: Profitability Matters: Do the Math on Farmland Values
Aired: January 2016 Lower commodity prices have brought tight margins to farmers around the country—and last year farm income was the lowest since 2002. [...]
Disease Management: The Challenge of Managing SCN
Most of you already know that the soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is the most damaging pathogen to soybeans. There are currently two widely recommended [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: Dos and Don’ts
With the low commodity prices and lower production costs with soybeans, growers may be inclined to plant some of their fields back to soybeans. [...]
Weed Management: Dealing With Waterhemp Resistance
During the last two years waterhemp has exploded in soybean fields. Are they herbicide-resistant? Were they too tall to be controlled by a post [...]
MANAGEMENT MATTERS: How to Market Your Crop
Aired: January 2016 With the low commodity prices of 2015 likely to continue in 2016, many advisors recommend cutting costs. Meanwhile, growers are afraid that [...]
MANAGEMENT MATTERS: Succession Planning
While lower prices have many farmers focused on their short-term profitability, succession planning is an important key to ensuring the longevity of their operations. Farmers [...]
MANAGEMENT MATTERS: Farmland Values
Lower commodity prices have brought tight margins to farmers around the country—and last year farm income was the lowest since 2002. However, farm economics works [...]
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