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Insured Acres, Base Acres, and the Farm Bill’s Crop Risk Assistance

August 3, 2026

Carl Zulauf

The US farm bill crop safety net targets two risks. Crop insurance targets production-period low yield and revenue risk. Commodity programs target multiple-year low price and revenue risk. A farm…

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Measuring What Matters: A Conversation with Field to Market

August 4th, 2026

Join PCM's Clay Bess for a farmdoc daily conversation with Eric Coronel, Ph.D., Director of Science and Research at Field to Market. In this interview-style discussion, Eric will explain what Field to Market does, how the Fieldprint Platform measures on-farm sustainability, and how that data gets used by supply chain partners and farmer programs like PCM. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of how conservation practices translate into both financial and environmental outcomes.

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The Clean Fuel Production Tax Credit (45Z), Part 3: Reviewing the Potential Value

July 31, 2026

Zhangliang Chen, Jonathan Coppess, and Kaiyu Guan

Continuing the review of the Clean Fuel Production Tax Credit, this article explores the potential economic benefit that could be created for Midwest corn and soybean producers implementing approved practices. …

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Pesticide Problems, Part 2: Legislative History of the 1972 Amendments

July 30, 2026

Andrew Hockenberry, Jonathan Coppess, and Bryan Endres

Between a recent Supreme Court decision and controversial provisions in the unfinished Farm Bill considered in the House, normally obscure pesticide regulations have garnered an unusual amount of attention lately…

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Timely Payments: The Case for Commodity Programs That Pay at Harvest

July 29, 2026

Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, Henrique Monaco, Gary Schnitkey, and Jonathan Coppess

Since 2019, ARC-CO (Agriculture Risk Coverage – county version) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage) payments have approximately followed market returns: large when market losses are large and small when markets…

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Crop Insurance Loss Performance and Impacts on Farmer Net Support by Crop

July 28, 2026

Henrique Monaco, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, and Bruce Sherrick

A recent farmdoc daily article (July 21, 2026) provided an analysis of the performance of the federal crop insurance program in 2025, discussing how it was “typical” when compared to…

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Rethinking Phosphorus and Potassium, Part 2: Grain Removal Values

July 27, 2026

Luke Bergschneider, Yaniv Freiberg, and Andrew Margenot

Soil Testing Strategies As discussed in part 1 of this series (see farmdoc daily article from June 29, 2026), grain removal rates are foundational to phosphorus (P) and potassium (K)…

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Impact of Leverage on Rates of Return of Crop Farms

July 24, 2026

Michael Langemeier

Increasing financial leverage will increase expected returns as long the marginal returns from the use of loans exceed the cost of borrowing. In favorable economic times, higher leverage can improve…

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