POLICY
Improving trade and technology for farmers is the best way to keep American agriculture great.
Nearly half of all farmworkers are undocumented, and industries such as dairy and meatpacking plants are especially vulnerable to labor shortages.
With 30 tax provisions set to expire at the end of 2025, four experts explain how and when you could be affected.
The U.S. agriculture industry has started talks with Donald Trump’s transition team in a bid to advocate for the sector as the president-elect pledges tariffs and mass deportations.
As federal policy decisions tend to heavily impact rural industries, the outcome of the 2024 election promises to significantly shape the rural economy in the year ahead. CoBank’s annual report outlines what to expect.
Paying an inheritance tax in many cases would require selling acreage or even dissolving a farm that goes back centuries.
Some economists think agriculture is in a recession. Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist for StoneX, is one of them. However, he believes comparisons to the 1980s are misguided.
restoring natural habitat to Midwest fields one strip at a time
American farmers are ready to join Kennedy to make America healthy again by using first-rate science and agriculture’s best technology.
A trifecta of high input prices, high interest rates, and depressed crop prices have Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) bringing focus to the economic stress for farmers.