Results from the May 2025 wave of the Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey suggest that consumers may be feeling some relief on the inflation front. Perceptions of food affordability slightly increased and the reported impact of inflation decreased. Despite this, consumers are still facing much uncertainty around tariffs. Reported concern levels remain unchanged from February 2025, and more consumers are adapting purchasing behaviors.

Both the House and Senate Reconciliation Bills include provisions to encourage the purchase of the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO). Since 2015 when SCO was first offered, actual county-level yields of corn and soybeans in the Midwest have been above expected yields in most years, implying a continuation of historical increases in yield and lower expectations for indemnities. On the other hand, actual county-level yields have been below expected yields for the majority of years for cotton.

Both community banks and the Farm Credit System (FCS) play vital roles in financing U.S. agriculture, though they operate under different institutional models. The FCS is the largest agricultural lender, holding 45.82% of all agricultural debt in 2023, compared to 34.93% held by all commercial banks. As of year-end 2024, the FCS reported $81.21 billion in outstanding non-real estate farm loans and $187.95 billion in real estate farm loans.

Senators will begin their vote-a-rama on the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ at 9 a.m. Monday. The driver behind the bill is to prevent the 2017 tax cuts from expiring, but…

Global prices of key fertilizer ingredient urea have surged alongside escalating violence in the Middle East, which threatens to choke supplies of the crop nutrient from a significant producing and…

Brazilian farmers will produce a record 123.3 million metric tons of second corn, agribusiness consultancy Agroconsult said on Tuesday after surveying fields in key producing regions nationwide.