Farm Management

• Analyzing Crop Insurance for the Current Year
  
  
• Bulletin 810: Average Crop, Pasture, & Forestry Productivity Ratings for Illinois Soils.
  Bulletin 810 a publication on soil productivity.
  
  
• Center for Farm Financial Management
  
  
• Crop Budgets - Current
  Estimated cost of producing crops in Illinois
  
  
• Crop Insurance Farm Units
  Crop Insurance information from Iowa State
  
  
• Crop Insurance Products
  
  
• Fast: Farm Analysis.Solutions.Tools
  Computerized decision aids for financial analysis, investment analysis and farm financial management decisions. MS EXCEL required.
  
  
• Field Operations
  Cost of field operations in Illinois.
  
  
• Forage Field Operations
  Shows estimated costs for owning and operating forage machinery.
  
  
• Harvesting
  Estimated costs for combining grains, using grain carts, and hauling grain.
  
  
• Historical Analysis of Crop Insurance
  
  
• Illinois Crop Budgets
  Budgets show projected costs of crops in Illinois and historical figures.
  
  
• Illinois Crop Budgets Tool
  Online tool allows users to compare a farm's projected costs to costs contained in University of Illinois budgets.
  
  
• Illinois Crop Yields
  Contains corn, soybean, and wheat yields for all Illinois counties from 1972 to the present.
  
  
• Inheriting a Farm
  Inheriting a Farm, an ISU publication addressing questions that arise when a farm is inherited.
  
  
• Iowa State University Custom Rates
  ISU annual survey rates charged by farmers.
  
  
• Last Spring Frost
  
  
• Premium Calculator
  Crop insurance premium calculator for north central region crops.
  
  
• Purdue Ag Economics Newsletter
  Research and information from Purdue.
  
  
• Quicken for Farm Producers
  The Quicken software package to keep your farm business records.
  
  
• Soil Productivity by type and County
  County level information on farm soil ratings.
  
  
• Summary of Operations
  Summary of estimated costs for tractors, harvesting, field and forage operations.
  
  
• The Bulletin
  The Bulletin provides timely information about pests and crops throughout Illinois.
  
  
• Tractors
  Estimated costs for different sized tractors.
  
  
• Transitioning Family Farms
  Building for the Successful Transition of Your Family Business, a series of fact sheets from Ohio State.
  
  
• U of I Variety Testing Results
  U of I test plots results for soybean, corn, small grains and forage crops. The 2009 Wheat data is now available.
  
  

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