Variable costs accounted for 46% of total corn production costs. On top of increased costs, farmers are making less money on every food dollar. Farmers made 1.4% less on commodity sales from each ...

It adds up to a per-bushel production cost of $4.19 for rotation corn on average-yielding land, up 30 cents from 2010. The projected cost to produce rotation soybeans this year is $9.73 per bushel ...

The health and environmental costs of corn production have been found to be greater than the market price in some regions of the USA. A multi-departmental team from the University of Minnesota (UMN; ...