McLean County Farm Bureau

FarmDoc Daily

• Managing the Herd: Balancing Anticipated Productivity with Softening Demand
  The USDA’s September Hogs and Pigs report places the September 1st inventory of all hogs and pigs at 74.3 million head, up 1.60% from revised estimates for last quarter but…
• Farmland Values and Competitiveness in the United States and Brazil
  Lower farmland values have long been considered a competitive advantage for Brazilian agriculture relative to U.S. agriculture (Colussi and Langemeier, 2026). However, strong farm profits, supported by periods of high…
• Updates from the Policy Design Lab: Crop Insurance and Soybeans
  The Policy Design Lab project recently released two updates to the web-based policy visualizations. The first includes further developments for crop insurance, allowing users to visualize data at the county level and by year and/or by crop. The second is a storyboard for soybeans, visualizing background information on soybean trade and utilization. The Illinois Soybean […]