Paul D. Mitchell 
Paul D. Mitchell, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and UW Extension Cropping Systems Economics State Specialist

My Extension program broadly focuses on cropping systems economics, with particular focus on crop insurance, insect and weed management with transgenic crops, and cost of production estimates.

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 Current Work

 Thinking about ACRE for 2009 (July 2009 Fact Sheet) NEW

 Thinking about ACRE for 2009 (PowerPoint July 2009) NEW

 Overview of ACRE for 2009 (July 2009 Fact Sheet) NEW

 USDA-FSA ACRE Calculator Spreadsheet: Wisconsin Template (July 2009) NEW

 Understanding Farm Programs: Crop Insurance, ACRE and SURE (PowerPoint Jan 2009)

 Input Prices: Long Term Trends and Short Run Realities (PowerPoint Feb 2009)

 Hints for Using Crop Insurance in 2009 (Dec 2008)

 ACRE, SURE, and the New Farm Bill Crop Insurance Requirements (PowerPoint Sep 2008)

 

 2008 Farm Bill 

 Thinking about ACRE for 2009 (July 2009) NEW

 Overview of ACRE for 2009 (July 2009) NEW

 USDA-FSA ACRE Calculator Spreadsheet: Wisconsin Template (July 2009) NEW

 Understanding Farm Programs: Crop Insurance, ACRE and SURE (PowerPoint Jan 2009)

 ACRE, SURE, and the New Farm Bill Crop Insurance Requirements (Sep 2008)

 Farm Bill: Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program (June 2008)

 Farm Bill: Horticulture and Organic Agriculture (June 2008)

 Farm Bill: What it Means for Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers (July 2008)

 

 Crop Insurance

 Bulletins

 Overview of Federal Crop Insurance in Wisconsin (Nov 2005)

 Hints for Using Crop Insurance in 2009 (Dec 2008)

 Crop Insurance Overview and Hints (Feb 2008)

 Hints for Using Crop Insurance in 2008 (Jan 2008)

 Is GRP a Good Deal for My Corn? (Jan 2008)

 Tables of Expected Net Returns to GRP in 2008 (Jan 2008)

 Crop Insurance, Flooding, and Drought: Alternative Uses of Insured Crops (Aug 2007)

 Frost Damage and Crop Insurance Replant Provisions (May 2007)

 Late and Prevented Planting and Replant Provisions (June 2008)

 Drought and Alternative Uses of Insured Crops: Can I Chop My Insured Corn?

 Livestock Risk Protection

 Soybean Rust and Crop Insurance

 Soybean Rust Management Activities Documentation Template

PowerPoint Presentations

 Understanding Farm Programs: Crop Insurance, ACRE and SURE (PowerPoint Jan 2009)

 Managing Risk in the Produce Market: Where Crop Insurance Fits (Mar 2008)

 Crop Insurance Update for ANRE Team Grains Teleconference (Nov 2007)

 Crop Insurance and Processing Vegetables (Mar 2007)

 Crop Insurance: Expanded Hints and APH Analysis in Juneau and Adams Counties (Jan 2007)

 Crop Insurance: Helpful Hints and GRP Analysis in Juneau, Adams, and Marquette Counties (Aug 2006)

 Value of AGR-Lite for Wisconsin Growers (Feb 2007)

 Federal Crop Insurance in Wisconsin (Nov 2005)

 Livestock Risk Protection

 

 Crop Economics

 Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program (June 2008)

 The New Economics of Grain Production (Jan 2008)

 New Economics of Crop Production: Crop Consultants Perspective (Mar 2008)

 The Farm Bill: Current Status and New Revenue Support Programs (Jan 2008)

 Growing Potatoes in the New BioEconomy (Feb 2008)

 

 Federal Disaster Assistance

 New Disaster Assistance for Wisconsin Farmers Affected by the 2008 Floods (Aug 2008)

 New Disaster Programs in the 2008 Farm Bill (Aug 2008)

 Disaster Assistance for Uninsured Farmers Affected by Recent Flooding (June 2008)

 Federal Disaster Assistance for Vegetable Farmers Affected by Recent Flooding and Drought (Sept 2007)

 

 Potatoes and Vegetables

 Input Prices: Long Term Trends and Short Run Realities (PowerPoint Feb 2009)
 Veggie Compass: Which way to do you want to grow? (PowerPoint Jan 2009)
 Growing Potatoes in the New BioEconomy (Feb 2008)
 Potato Demand in an Increasingly Organic World (Feb 2008)
 Crop Insurance and Processing Vegetables (Mar 2007)
 How to Continue to Grow Quality Potatoes with Skyrocketing Costs? (Feb 2007)

 Estimate Your Cost of POTATO Production (Documentation)

 Estimate Your Cost of POTATO Production (Spreadsheet)

 Sweet Corn for Processing: Value and Risk of IPM for European Corn Borer (IPM Insert)

 Risk Management Framework to Improve IPM Decision-Making (IPM Folder)

 Economics and Risk of Sweet Corn IPM (PowerPoint April 2006)

 Risk and the Value of Additional Insecticide Applications for ECB Control in Sweet Corn (Dec 2005)

 Risk and the Value of Additional Insecticide Applications for ECB Control in Sweet Corn (PowerPoint Dec 2005)

 

Cost of Production Materials

Spreadsheets

 Corn-Soybeans-Small Grains Detailed Cost of Production Estimator (2006)

 Wisconsin IRRIGATED CORN Budget (2006)

 IRRIGATION Cost Estimator for Wisconsin (2006)

 Fast and Simple Method to Estimate Typical Machinery Costs (2005)

 Estimate Your Cost of POTATO Production (2005)

PowerPoint Presentations

 Wisconsin IRRIGATED CORN Budget (2006)

 Strawberry Enterprise Budgeting (May 2007)

 CRANBERRY Boom Sprayer Cost Estimate (2005)

Documentation and Bulletins

 Fast and Simple Method to Estimate Typical Machinery Costs (2005)

 Estimate Your Cost of POTATO Production (2006)

 CRANBERRY Boom Sprayer Cost Estimate (2005)

 Strawberry Enterprise Budgeting Resources (May 2007)

 

Bt Corn in Wisconsin

Bulletins

 Expected Net Benefit and Break-Even Probability for Corn Borer Bt Corn in Wisconsin

 Expected Net Benefit and Break-Even Probability for Corn Borer Bt Corn (Shorter Version)

 Expected Net Benefit and Break-Even Probability for Corn Borer Bt Corn (One Page Announcement)

PowerPoint Presentations

 Stacks of Bills vs. Stacks of Genes: Economics of Planting Transgenic Seeds (Feb. 2007)

 What have Transgenics Meant for U.S. Farmers? An Economic Perspective (Nov. 2006)

 Expected Net Benefit and Break-Even Probability for Corn Borer Bt Corn in Wisconsin

Spreadsheet Decision Aids

 Calculate Your Net Benefit and Break-Even Probability for Corn Borer Bt Corn in Wisconsin

 Calculate Your Net Benefit and Break-Even Probability for Western Corn Rootworm Control Using Soybean Trap Counts

 

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