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 ...

The latest Feeding the Economy report is now available. Chad Smith has more on how the report demonstrates agriculture’s ...

Food and agriculture supports $10.4 trillion in total U.S. economic output, representing about 20% of all economic activity.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drive less than 20 minutes from almost any crossroads in Indiana and you’ll come across a feature of the Midwest landscape we take for granted: farmland. The vast open space in abundance between our ...

Tom Oberhaus stands next to some Cozy Nook's newborn cows. While the farm supplements its income with Christmas trees during the holiday season, the cows are now the star of the show again. This year, ...

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