MU specialist discusses policy, budgets at crop conference

Farmers and crop advisers attending the University of Missouri Extension Crop Conference will hear what to expect in agriculture in 2025. Ben Brown, MU Extension specialist in risk management, will look at what lies ahead in crop markets, input costs and agricultural policy during the Dec. 4-5 conference in Columbia.

Brown will review how crop markets changed over the past few months. Brown also will give an overview of customizable row crop production budgets created by MU Extension. This includes separate budgets for southeastern Missouri. Enterprise budgets for 2025 show expectations for prices, production and input quantities. The 2025 budgets show a drop in fixed inputs like interest and machinery costs but increases in variable costs like seed and crop protection.

The conference will be at a new location this year, the Columbia Hilton Garden Inn and Conference Center. For details and registration, visit https://mizzou.us/CMC.