Farm tools and calculators

Today’s local cash bids from elevators near you, each with how long ago it was posted. Compare basis across locations.

Full cost-per-acre analysis. Enter seed, fertilizer, chemicals, land, and machinery costs. Get break-even price, profit/loss, and sensitivity table.

Effective reference prices with the math, FSA’s official county ARC-CO benchmarks, and which program pays more at each price and county yield.

Pick your grid, acres and months. See the premium, USDA’s share, and what the policy would have paid in every year since 1951. Compare two setups side by side.

Your elevator’s own later bids, minus storage, interest and shrink, in cents a bushel.

Today’s LRP rates for feeder cattle, fed cattle and hogs, your premium per head after the subsidy, and how each coverage level did on RMA’s record since 2013.

Marketing loan cash now and interest per bushel per month, against your carry.

Five years of severe-hail storm reports on one national map, with reported stone sizes near your fields.

Your growing degree units since planting for corn and soybeans, projected ahead at your spot’s own 1991-2020 normal, with the typical first 28°F freeze filled in.

Tap any US field: soil types, 10-year crop rotation, county rent, basis, weather, hail history, and a printable field report.

Soil temperature and the 5-day soil forecast at your ZIP and your county’s crop insurance planting dates, anywhere. Station frost odds in Wisconsin and Minnesota only, plus the yield cost of each week’s delay from University of Minnesota studies.

Upcoming WASDE, Crop Progress, and Prospective Plantings report dates with market impact notes.

Tariff rates on US corn, soybean, wheat and pork exports by destination, and USDA’s weekly count of China’s soybean buying.

Corn, soybean and wheat futures (delayed) and local weather on one page.

This week's USDA hay trades by grade and bale type, and the monthly price farmers got for alfalfa and other hay, dollars a ton, by state.

Feeder steer and heifer prices by weight class at the sale barns near your ZIP, from USDA auction reports.

Pull NASS crop yields, planted acres, and prices received by state. Pre-loaded tables plus a query builder that opens custom pulls on USDA Quick Stats.

Count ears and kernels, enter 3 numbers, get estimated bu/acre. The yield component method, sized for a phone in the field.

Corn N rates, P and K by soil test, manure value, crop removal, growth stages, pest thresholds, herbicide groups, lime and conversions, with quick calculators.

Where each number on AGSIST comes from: Yahoo Finance, Open-Meteo, NOAA, USDA and the rest.

Basis, WASDE, settle, carry and more, each explained in a line or two with where the number comes from.

Wind, temperature, humidity and inversion risk for your location, hour by hour.

Co-op posted N-P-K-S cash prices, with the region named and the date each was posted, a $/lb-nutrient comparison, and a calculator that builds the cheapest fertility program for your crop and yield goal.

Daily risk index for nitrogen loss from surface-applied urea. Based on temp, moisture, and soil conditions.

What dairy, hog, beef and poultry manure is worth in N, P and K at the latest co-op posted fertilizer prices, for your rate and acres.

What baling stalks, chopping silage or selling hay takes off in P and K, priced at co-op posted fertilizer prices.

Measured 4 in soil temperature near your county, last 7 days, against the 50°F line.

Calculate bushel capacity, moisture shrink, and dollar value of your grain inventory. Round, hopper, and flat-floor bins.

When to run aeration fans to dry, cool or hold corn, soybeans and wheat, hour by hour for the next 3 days where you are, plus EMC charts you can print.

What wet corn, soybeans, wheat or sorghum nets after shrink and drying charges, and what delivering too dry gives away.

Count beans or kernels behind the combine: bushels and dollars an acre left in the field.

Drying bill now vs after 7 to 14 days of field drydown, with your LP price, bid and your own field loss.