This report compares fertilizer and fuel prices for this spring to comparative prices for the past four years for major field crops. In addition, it provides insight into the outlook for this summer and into the prices paid index from the FAPRI's 2006 Baseline.

This report outlines enhanced existing local cooperative water quality efforts, summarizes economic and physical data, and discusses how that information was used to develop analytical models.

This report highlights production costs related to energy based resources with a particular focus on variable costs for fuel and fertilizer. This provides preliminary estimates regarding prices paid by farmers for inputs for 2006 in addition to a short-term outlook.

This paper analyzes the food price surge of 2005 to 2008 in order to better understand the factors causing higher and more volatile food prices during this period, to ascertain the relative importance and possible persistence of the different factors, and to suggest possible implications for...

This is an abbreviated, mid-year report containing updated financial tables and risk graphs for Missouri Representative Farms.

Analysis of barley issues prepared in response to a request from Senators Crapo, Conrad, Craig, and Representatives Simpson, Otter, and Pomeroy.

As producers begin to review their balance sheets after harvest, many will find the squeeze of not only lower commodity prices, but substantially higher costs. This fall outlook summarizes costs for 2005 and provides insight into anticipated costs for 2006.

This report presents a five-year outlook for the set of 36 Missouri representative farms using the FAPRI 2006 U.S. Baseline.

This report examines a proposal to change the way in which wheat countercyclical payments are calculated, in response to a Congressional request.

The biofuel industry is transforming US agriculture. Rapid expansion of ethanol and biodiesel production has contributed to higher prices for corn, soybean oil, and a wide range of other agricultural commodities.