2014 Crop Budgets

The 2014 Illinois Crop Budgets are now available on farmdoc (click here for budgets).These budgets give projected revenues, costs, and returns for corn-after-soybeans (corn planted in farmland that had been in soybeans the previous year), corn-after-corn, soybeans-after-corn, soybeans-after-two-yearscorn, wheat, and double-crop soybeans.Budgets are given for northern, central, and southern Illinois.Central Illinois is further divided into categories for high and low productivity farmland.High productivity farmland has an expected corn yield of 199 bushels per acre for corn-after-soybeans while low productivity farmland with expected corn yield of 186 bushels per acre. Changes from 2013 Budgets to 2014 BudgetsThe 2014 Illinois Crop Budgets have four tables, one for each of the above regions.The table for northern Illinois is shown in Table 1.We request all readers, electronic media and others follow our citation guidelines when re-posting articles from farmdoc daily.Guidelines are available here.The farmdoc daily website falls under