Strategy covers commitments made a season or more in advance: crop rotation and acreage allocation, forward contracts and storage, hedging decisions, land rental and purchase, and diversification into new enterprises. Each analysis works through the assumptions on cost and price that the decision depends on, and what happens when those assumptions fail.
Seed and fertilizer are the largest direct costs in university row-crop budgets — the buying strategy that manages them is about structure and timing discipline, not forecasting.
Isabel Duarte · February 18, 2026
Commercial storage in Iowa runs 9 to 16 cents a bushel for the first three months and 2 to 4 cents a month after that — the numbers a store-or-sell decision has to beat.
Tanya Brooks · January 26, 2026
A crop-by-crop budget, built from university cost estimates and your own records, shows where a row-crop operation actually makes and loses money.
Tanya Brooks · January 4, 2026