A few years ago, Wisconsin soybean farmer Doug Rebout was getting $14.50 a bushel for his crop. Now, amid a trade dispute with China and rising production costs driven by inflation, that price has ...
Farmers face mounting financial pressures that threaten mental health and family legacies across the agricultural industry.
Weiner, Ark. (KAIT) - Arkansas farm owners are facing unimaginable loss amid an economic crisis, forcing some to lose their land. Shannon Hall’s family has tilled the soil of Poinsett County, Arkansas ...
Soybean growers say that President Donald Trump's $12 billion bailout package is helpful but doesn’t get to the root of the problem.
Florida fresh produce grower Jim Alderman says one thing is his biggest worry. “Who is coming behind us? That’s the part that keeps me up at night. It’s not just about growing crops, it also passing ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) -- Iowa soybean farmer Warren Bachman warns of a potential farm crisis after China halted purchases of U.S. soybeans in retaliation against new tariffs imposed by President ...
“Yeah, you can buy dirt... And thank the good Lord for it... ‘Cause he ain’t makin’ any more of it.” The lyrics above are from the 2021 hit country song “Buy Dirt,” which voices a mantra that lives ...
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KOLN) - During our visit to Husker Harvest Days, we learned about an organization that provides haying, planting, harvesting assistance and more to farm and ranch families dealing ...
The former dairyman said it without emotion, like someone remarking that one-half inch of rain fell the night before. He and I, his wife and two teenage children, were seated at the kitchen table, ...
My favorite interview last week was 90-year-old Illinois farmboy John “Jack” Block. Block was former President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Agriculture from 1981 until 1986, the worst of the domestic ...