Double Cropping Soybeans President Joe Biden last week announced several new programs the administration is undertaking to address ...
Planting in Nebraska Nebraska farmers are in the midst of planting season as the planters have begun rolling. ...
How long does planting take? Figure 1 plots the average planting progress for corn and soybeans in Nebraska between 1996-2021 ...
How Many Days Are Suitable for Fieldwork? Each year, USDA NASS collects data on the number of suitable field days, or days ...
Trends in Days Suitable for Fieldwork? A question given climate change is whether there have been any trends in days suitable ...
What to make of all this? Nebraska farmers will typically have the corn crop planted by Memorial Day with the bulk ...
Farmers Start Your Tractors Spring is here, planting is in the air, and the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service ...
Nebraska Crop Values Climb The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) pegged the value of Nebraska’s 2021 field and ...
USDA Outlook Commodity markets were shocked last week by the news coming from Ukraine, but they also ...
2022 Crop Budgets Reflect Higher Costs There’s little doubt input and production costs will be higher in 2022 for crop producers. ...
Positive Margins Can Still Be Had High fertilizer prices, tight supplies of chemicals like glyphosate and glufosinate, and extended waits for ...
Value of Water for Irrigation Most people understand the value of water used in irrigation varies across regions and time. ...
Fertilizer Price Surge The unrelenting increases in the price of fertilizers are on many farmers’ minds, evidenced by ...
Avoid the Worst Outcome—Combining Strategies Might Work Crop producers face a multitude of decisions regarding marketing and hedging strategies and crop insurance ...
Less Corn, More Soybeans In 2021 Nebraska farmers planted fewer acres of corn this spring compared to last year and more ...
Crop Insurance Popular in Nebraska The federal crop insurance program remains a popular tool in crop producers’ risk management portfolio. ...
Economic Tidbits Profitable Year for Crop Producers Current market conditions are foreshadowing a profitable year as Nebraska’s crop producers venture into fields ...