While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

Changes to farm policy programs through an omnibus bill passed by Congress and signed into law July 4 will improve growers’ safety nets and increase row crop reference prices. The tax and spending cut ...

Steve Robisky (CQ), a Cedar Falls farmer, sows seeds for native prairie plants into a field for a private customer in rural Cedar Falls on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Robisky started farming 21 years ...

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...

For the last several decades, the default path for American farmers and ranchers has been increasing specialization of the agricultural activities on their operations. In 1949, American farmers ...

Row crop farmers get $11 billion, while fruit, nut and other specialty growers will share separate $1 billion fund The USDA will distribute $11 billion to growers of 20 crops by the end of February to ...

Most people imagine tractors, pesticides, or advanced irrigation when they think about modern farming. They rarely stop to ...

Warning against “blind ambition,” Ron Robbins placed his row crop acres on the scales, spurred by successive years of ...

Researchers from Germany have developed an innovative tool to enhance crop selection for agrivoltaics projects in 25 countries, thereby improving food security and energy efficiency in agriculture. As ...

Farmers harvest corn in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, in 2024. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...

On harvest days at Three Creeks Farm and Forest in the Missouri River valley, farm owner Emily Wright and her staff collect three varieties of leafy greens from the field. “We can't really grow enough ...