Center for Agricultural Profitability

Congress amended farm commodity programs through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025, and producers are back to making an active Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) versus Price Loss Coverage (PLC) decision in 2026. With those changes and shifting price projections in play, this year's enrollment decision at the USDA Farm Service Agency deserves careful thought. This webinar will cover farm program...

Nebraska producers have until Dec. 11 to make an ARC or PLC election for the 2026 crop year and complete enrollment at their FSA office. Brad Lubben, agricultural policy specialist with the Center for Agricultural Profitability at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explains why those are two separate steps and what happens to a farm that completes one but not the other. He walks through what the...

Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in agricultural economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explains what the discoloration showing up in soybean samples across much of Nebraska means for export and crush demand, and why it's weighing on basis heading into and beyond harvest. He also walks through what the September quarterly stocks report and the October WASDE changed in the c...

Skylar Faltar, program coordinator with Buy Fresh Buy Local Nebraska, joins Nebraska FARMcast to talk about the Local Foods Collaboration Summit on Nov. 9 in Lincoln. She explains what collaboration can look like for local food producers, from coordinated deliveries and shared processing space to group purchasing and cooperatives, and how to decide between a formal and informal arrangement. Faltar...

Spur AgConverge runs Nov. 17-18 at Raising Nebraska in Grand Island, bringing farmers, startups, researchers and investors together to test new agricultural technology against real operational challenges. Ishani Lal, economic analyst with the Center for Agricultural Profitability, and Alexa Davis, soil and water programs coordinator with the Nebraska Department of Water, Energy and Environment, di...

Three issues will be on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot in Nebraska: (1) authorizing online sports betting, (2) prohibiting transgender females from participating on female school sports teams, and (3) making it more difficult for state senators to amend voter-approved laws. These issues are discussed by Dave Aiken, professor and water law/ agricultural law specialist at Nebraska.

How are Nebraska landlords and tenants dividing crop inputs, field operations and irrigation responsibilities? This webinar will share findings from 92 crop-share lease arrangements reported through the Nebraska Crop-Share Lease Survey. Participants will learn how common 50/50, 60/40 and other arrangements handle seed, fertilizer, crop-protection products, field operations, irrigation energy and e...

In this tutorial video, Glennis McClure, Extension Educator with the Center for Agricultural Profitability, walks through CAP's cattle enterprise budget resources and the Ag Budget Calculator. She starts on the CAP website, showing sample cow-calf, replacement heifer, and backgrounding budgets for different regions of Nebraska, and explains how each one breaks down revenue, feed costs, and ownersh...

Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in agricultural economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, shows how to use the corn stocks-to-use ratio to set a realistic price expectation and breaks down what to watch in the quarterly grain stocks report. He also covers the slow, wet harvest across Nebraska and Iowa and what it's doing to soybean basis, where corn and soybean demand stands,...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Extension Beef Economics team annually publishes a report that forecasts the expected value of replacement heifers for Nebraska producers. This webinar will highlight the latest forecast, published in September 2026. These forecasts are intended to be used as a guide in what cow replacement costs might be, given market volatility, futures expectations, costs, e...

The farm bill saga continues. Brad Lubben, Extension agricultural policy specialist at Nebraska, breaks down the Senate Agriculture Committee's Sept. 16 vote and what it means for a bill still headed toward a lame-duck showdown after the November election. Lubben explains what's actually at stake, from the Conservation Reserve Program to the SNAP dispute that's long held the farm bill's coalition...

Organic certification can open up new markets and price premiums, but getting there takes three years of planning, not just a change in what goes on the field. Shannon Sand, extension ag economist with the Center for Agricultural Profitability, joins Nebraska FARMcast to talk through what that transition actually requires, from budgeting for a stretch of higher costs and lower yields to building a...

This webinar walks through the September WASDE report and shows how to turn its supply and demand numbers into a working grain marketing plan. USDA put the 2026 corn yield at 178.5 bushels an acre, down from 180.7 in August and 186.5 the year before, while the soybean yield moved up slightly to 52.8 bushels an acre. Peterson opens the report itself and goes page by page through the corn and soybea...

Transitioning to organic production requires careful planning beyond the field. This webinar will explore how the transition can affect farmland leases, responsibilities between landowners and tenants, and record-keeping requirements. Participants will learn practical strategies for maintaining records, and addressing organic production expectations in lease agreements. With Shannon Sand, Extensio...

From Marketing Tips for Corn and Soybeans on Sept. 1, 2026.

From Marketing Tips for Corn and Soybeans on Sept. 1, 2026.

Corn and soybean growers should be paying close attention to their marketing decisions this fall, with both markets working higher on tightening supplies and strong demand. This webinar will examine the U.S. supply and demand outlook ahead of the September WASDE report, review Pro Farmer Crop Tour yield findings against USDA's estimates, and cover export, ethanol and crush demand trends for corn a...

Nebraska landowners and tenants should begin reviewing their lease arrangements before the September 1 deadline for terminating or changing the terms of a verbal agricultural lease. This webinar will explain the deadline, examine the newly released USDA NASS county cash rental rates, identify changes from 2025, and demonstrate practical methods for establishing equitable cash rents for the 2027 gr...

This is part of the Marketing Tips for TAPS series for August 18, 2026, presented by the Center for Agricultural Profitability and the UNL TAPS program. Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in ag economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explains how the Pro Farmer Crop Tour samples soybean fields and how those results compare to USDA's numbers. Scouts measure a three-foot section...

This is part of the Marketing Tips for TAPS series for August 18, 2026, presented by the Center for Agricultural Profitability and the UNL TAPS program. Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in ag economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, breaks down the corn and soybean balance sheets from the August 12 WASDE report. He walks through how USDA builds the numbers, from planted and h...

This is part of the Marketing Tips for TAPS series for August 18, 2026, presented by the Center for Agricultural Profitability and the UNL TAPS program. Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in ag economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, reviews the technical setup for November soybean futures. The market found support at its 100-day moving average in early August, then broke thro...

This is part of the Marketing Tips for TAPS series for August 18, 2026, presented by the Center for Agricultural Profitability and the UNL TAPS program. Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in ag economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, looks at the technical picture for December corn futures following the August WASDE report. The market moved above both its 100-day and 200-day m...

Full presentation of Marketing Tips from TAPS series for August 18, 2026, presented by the Center for Agricultural Profitability and the UNL TAPS program. Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in ag economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, covers this month's grain marketing update in full. He starts with the corn and soybean balance sheets from the August 12 WASDE report, walking...

Offered since 2019, the quarterly webinars address common management issues for Nebraska landowners, agricultural operators, and related stakeholders interested in the latest insight on trends in real estate, managing agricultural land and solutions for addressing challenges in the upcoming growing season. The August 2026 webinar will cover trends in Nebraska cash rental rates for 2026, Nebraska a...

Rural grocery stores often run on margins as thin as a penny on the dollar, and one wrong decision can put a store under. In this episode, Charlotte Narjes of the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center and Ansley Fellers of the Nebraska Grocery Industry Association discuss the pressures facing small-town grocers, from competition and ownership transitions to credit card fees and changes to SNAP a...