McLean County Farm Bureau

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• Historical Corn versus Soybean Returns in Illinois
  Average per acre returns to soybean production have exceeded those for corn production in 10 out of the 13 crop years from 2013 to 2025. The opposite was true over…
• 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. Three intertwined lessons from the long history of market concentration and monopoly pricing in public policy and economic thought are discussed: (1) monopoly pricing depends on barriers to market entry not number and size of […]
• 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…