Fertilizer affordability challenges are most acute in the South and Northeast but remain a concern for farmers across all ...

315 Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies filed in 2025, up 46% from 2024. Midwest and Southeast regions recorded the largest increases. U.S. farm debt projected to reach $624.7 billion in 2026. Declining ...

Analyses of agricultural land values indicate they have generally remained steady this year despite low commodity prices and high input costs wearing on farmers' bottom lines, but some bankers expect ...

Government subsidies are keeping the nation’s farm economy afloat even more than last year. USDA is forecasting that farm income will be relatively stable this year only because of increased ...

As a farmer, I don’t need a spreadsheet to tell me when times are hard. I see it every day and hear it in conversations with farmers across the country. The farm economy remains under real pressure, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A soybean farm. (Getty Images.) Making the same screw up twice and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, the ...

Strong livestock profits and high yields lifted incomes last year, but rising mediation cases, tight margins and input cost volatility point to ongoing financial stress heading in 2026.

The long-awaited Farmer Bridge Assistance rates are out! Rice and cotton will receive the highest per-acre rates, in keeping with earlier predictions. On the last day of 2025, USDA announced the ...

The nation’s agriculture community continues to drive the United States economy, according to advocates who issued the Feeding the Economy report on March 23. Thirty-five agriculture groups released ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —Hundreds of attendees were at the Sioux Falls convention center for the 2026 South Dakota Ag Expo. “South Dakota AG Expo is the annual show that we put together, as the South ...

CHICAGO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Across the U.S. farm belt, these have become depressing times. Farmers are facing another season of low prices, high costs and difficult decisions about how — or whether — ...

LANSING – As Michigan loses more farms, rural communities are experiencing significant changes, experts say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Michigan lost about 1,300 farms between ...