McLean County Farm Bureau

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• Concentration and Monopoly Pricing: What Economics Tells Us
  The US has entered one of its reoccurring eras of concern over concentrated markets and what economists call monopoly pricing, a firm’s ability to sustain its price above its cost…
• Explaining Differences in Farm Growth Expectations
  Farm growth expectations vary among U.S. farms, and those expectations appear to be linked to how producers view their financial position, investment opportunities, and the broader outlook for agriculture.  Results…
• Conservation & Risk, Part 3: Exploring the Risk-Payment Gap
  Conservation practices operate within dynamic biological, operational, and economic systems shaped heavily by weather variability. Previous articles in this series explored how spring planting windows and fieldwork conditions may alter risks associated with timing-sensitive conservation practices such as cover crops. This article extends that discussion by comparing those potential risks with conservation incentive payments.