Your field
Actual yield at 15.5% moisture. Expected yield is the approved yield on your crop insurance policy. No policy? Use the county’s RMA transitional yield or FSA ARC benchmark yield.
Total from every source (fall, spring, sidedress, starter), averaged over the field.
Share of your N that received a nitrification inhibitor.
Reduced till and no-till must be backed by a USDA T-DISC result.
Your estimate
Where you land on Elite Octane’s schedule
Lower emissions move right and pay more. Dots show the same field under other practices.
What would move your premium
What each practice is worth on your numbers
Premium per bushel, with the carbon intensity score underneath. Your current choice is outlined.
Where your emissions come from
Before you count on this number
Your official score comes from USDA’s own calculator, and plants ask for its printout. Use USDA’s FD-CIC web tool for the real score. This estimator follows the same logic so you can see what moves the number.
No-till or reduced till only counts if your field passes from last harvest to this harvest score 0.075 or lower (no-till) or 0.252 or lower (reduced till) in USDA’s T-DISC web tool. This estimator does not check your passes. ADM says full no-till credit also requires no-till for at least four of the next five years.
Elite Octane. Their report asks you to initial that you wrote a nutrient budget before applying nutrients, based on soil tests under two years old or an unrelated agricultural expert. Their page lists reports due Feb. 1, 2027, a third-party audit in February or March 2027, and 2026 crop payments in July 2028. Enrollment is first come, first served and can close early.
ADM re:generations. The 2026 and 2027 programs pay $0.25 at 2,149 or lower, $0.20 at 2,150 to 3,199, $0.15 at 3,200 to 4,499 and a guaranteed $0.05 at 4,500 or higher. Corn must be sold directly to ADM at a listed location during the delivery window (Sept. 1, 2026 to Aug. 31, 2027 for the 2026 program). Non-GMO corn does not qualify. ADM says availability may be limited, first come, first served.
ADM combines your deliveries and fills your best-scoring production first, so if you deliver only part of your corn to ADM, those bushels earn the highest rate. This estimator assumes all bushels from this field go to the plant. ADM’s flyer doesn’t name its calculator, though its units and practices match USDA’s, so check your result at ADMregenerations.com.
ADM locations on the flyer include Burlington, Clinton and Cedar Rapids in Iowa; Columbus, Enola, Fremont, Fullerton, Lincoln, Newman Grove and Wisner in Nebraska; Marshall, Minneapolis and Winona in Minnesota; and many in Illinois.
Manure is not modeled here yet.