Newsletter Articles

• Collection of county yield data, how does NASS do it? -- April 2013
• Ag Decision Maker website has a new look! -- January 2013
• Evaluating your estate plan – a workshop for farm families -- January 2012
• Updating your cropland cash rental rate -- November 2011
• Improvements to ag decision maker -- November 2009
• Iowa corn and soybean county yields -- April 2009
• Making the transition from conventional to organic -- March 2009
• Agricultural outlook & management seminar series -- October 2008
• Ag Decision Maker Teaching Activities: An educational tool for classroom instruction -- September 2008
• Issues in agriculture - summer programs for 2007 -- July 2007
• Estimated costs of crop production for 2007 -- February 2007
• Farm financial planning program -- September 2006
• Winter farm management programs -- December 2005

Information Files

• Historical Corn Yields by County -- A1-12
• Historical Soybean Yields by County -- A1-13
• Organic Crop Production Enterprise Budgets -- A1-18
• Corn and Soybean Loan Rates -- A1-34
• Energy and Economic Returns by Crop Rotation -- A1-90
• Cash Corn and Soybean Prices -- A2-11
• Change in Corn Prices by Two Week Period -- A2-17
• Change in Soybean Prices by Two Week Period -- A2-18
• Corn Price Basis -- A2-41
• Soybean Basis -- A2-42
• July Soybean Basis -- A2-44
• July Corn Basis -- A2-43
• Iowa Farm Custom Rate Survey -- A3-10
• Historic County Cropland Rental Rates -- C2-11
• Metric Conversions -- C6-80

Decision Tools (xls)

• Hay Storage Cost Comparison -- A1-15
• Improving the Existing Gass with Lime, Fertilizer, and Weed Control -- A1-15
• Complete Renovation with a New Grass Seeding -- A1-15
• Complete Renovation with a Legume-Grass Mixture -- A1-15
• Interseeding and No-till Renovation -- A1-15
• Frost Seeding -- A1-15
• Killed Sod, No-till Renovation -- A1-15
• Alfalfa or Alfalfa-grass Hay with Oat Companion Crop Budget -- A1-15, A1-20
• Oat or Other Small Grain Budget-- A1-15, A1-20
• Alfalfa or Alfafa-grass Hay Budget-- A1-15, A1-20
• Corn following Corn -- A1-20
• Corn following Soybean -- A1-20
• Corn Silage following Corn -- A1-20
• Low-till corn following Soybeans -- A1-20
• Low-till drilled Soybeans following Corn -- A1-20
• Strip till Corn following Soybeans -- A1-20
• Strip till Herbicide Tolerant Soybeans following Corn -- A1-20
• Alfalfa or Alfafa-grass Hay Budget -- A1-20
• Alfalfa or Alfalfa-grass Hay with Oat Companion Crop Budget -- A1-20
• Oat or Other Small Grain Budget -- A1-20
• Improved Grass Pasture -- A1-20
• Improved Grass-legume Pasture -- A1-20
• Farrow-to-Finish -- B1-21
• Finishing Feeder Pigs -- B1-21
• Producing weaned 12 lb. pigs - Total Confinement -- B1-21
• Finishing weaned 12 lb. pigs – Total Confinement -- B1-21
• Finishing Yearling Steers -- B1-21
• Finishing Steer Calves -- B1-21
• Finishing Yearling Heifers -- B1-21
• Backgrounding Steer Calves -- B1-21
• Finishing Feeder Lamb -- B1-21
• Suggested Closing Inventory Prices for 2007 Records -- C1-40
• Flexible Farm Lease Agreements -- C2-21
• Calculating Hay and Pasture Cash Rents - C2-23
• Metric Conversions -- C6-80
• Monthly Profitability of Ethanol Production -- D1-10
• Monthly Profitability of Biodiesel Production -- D1-15