North American large ag unit retail sales were down 16.8% year-over-year in December, marking the end of a tough year overall ...

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

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 ...

By P.J. Huffstutter, Karl Plume and Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Across the U.S. farm belt, these have become ...

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 ...

A coalition of 56 agricultural organizations warned congressional leaders that years of high input costs and low crop prices ...

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 ...

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two ...

NEW ORLEANS - James Davis had the best year in his entire farming career this year. The third-generation Black row crop farmer estimated picking almost 1,300 pounds of cotton, an average of 50 bushels ...