A one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill, tied to the continuing resolution (CR), has sparked intense negotiations over economic assistance to farmers. Initially, leaders considered diverting ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

MANKATO, Minn. — Implementing no-till farming and other conservation practices can be great for your farm’s soil health and overall environment. But many have concerns when it comes to the cost of ...

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

Ashley Arrington, from Ag Resource Management (ARM), anecdotally confirms the data around farm economic stress. When asking ARM farmer customers who didn’t renew business with the ag lender the reason ...

Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies have hit highs not seen for a decade in some states, setting off alarms, with some wondering whether the farm economy could be headed for a crisis similar to the one that ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) made significant modifications to USDA mandatory farm programs and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Following these changes, the ...

This commentary is written by Grace Oedel, executive director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. I belong to a local CSA that supplies my weekly milk from a small herd of 15 or ...

U.S. agriculture is on the brink of a financial shakeout that will be the worse since the farm crisis of the 1980s. This is largely ignored, even by many farmers, but the monster won’t stay under the ...

Across rural America, farmers are no strangers to uncertainty. They navigate droughts, floods, fluctuating market prices, and soaring input costs. But this year, the storm isn’t coming from the skies ...

One of the biggest challenges facing modern farmers is pollination. They can continue to rely on Mother Nature and go down on a sinking ship, or they can adapt and control as many variables as ...