Bankruptcies have peaked and ebbed in relation to movements in farm income and government payments. Over the past decade, they have tended to cluster in specific states or regions, Wisconsin and Arkansas for example, and in specific sectors, particularly dairy, rice, cotton, and beef cattle. Bankruptcies are more likely to have a greater impact on specific types of borrowers, in particular beginning farmers and those qualifying for limited-resource programs or debt set-aside measures.

A structural shift in global grain markets that started in 2007 had major impacts on both crop and livestock prices as well as enterprise net returns. Did this structural shift result in differing rates of return for crop and livestock farms? This article uses aggregate commodity price indices for crop and livestock enterprises, and rates of return for beef, dairy, diversified, and crop farms derived from the FINBIN database to address this question.

The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee appears to have driven another nail in the coffin of the Farm Bill. It remains to be seen if it was the final…

This article continues the analysis of a decision guide for the annual choice between ARC-CO (Agricultural Risk Management – County) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage).  In an analysis discussed in…

USDA found an additional 1.4 million planted acres for both the corn and soybean crops to increase the corn crop slightly and boost the soybean crop to the largest in…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in ​a post on X on Monday that ‌a Texas facility to breed sterile flies to combat screwworm will open ahead of schedule in…

A surge in attacks on ships, ports and export terminals in the Black Sea is disrupting global supplies of ​grain and oil, turning the region into the latest strategic trade…

US soybean buys by China have picked up following a summit between Trump and President Xi Jinping in May, putting this year’s purchases roughly a quarter of the way toward…