“Trusted Agriculture Guides & Farming Insights”
The fertilizer plant expansion outside Sioux City was ready to move. Engineering studies were complete. Environmental reviews were largely finished. What stopped the project was
On a grain operation outside Decatur, Illinois, the machinery is current, the land productive, and the balance sheet intact. What remains unresolved is management continuity.
Pickup trucks idled along the edge of a frozen cornfield in central Iowa as farmers compared notes. The conversation had little to do with yields
The federal safety net has long been an accepted feature of American agriculture, expanding during downturns and retreating during profitable cycles. Over the past decade,
Policy discussions in Washington rarely move farm-by-farm. They move by budget lines, scorecards, and projections. Yet heading into 2026, the pressure now reaching Capitol Hill
For decades, US agricultural policy has followed a familiar rhythm. Periods of market stress or weather disruption were typically followed by targeted federal support, sometimes
DHS vs Congress: Farmers pay the real price. For decades, U.S. agricultural funding followed a familiar rhythm. Congress debated, appropriated, and reauthorized. The U.S. Department
Federal agriculture budgeting in the United States is designed to be predictable, slow-moving, and insulated from short-term political shocks. In practice, that insulation has eroded.
For most of the twentieth century, U.S. farm policy assumed a simple organizing unit: the family-scale operation. Federal programs, credit systems, and data collection were
U.S. agriculture enters the 2026 budget cycle carrying the residue of a brief recovery and the weight of longer-term strain. The income rebound that followed