Net farm incomes are expected to be higher in 2025 compared to 2024, not from cash prices for crop production but, from high livestock prices and direct government payments.

Producer Sentiment by Farm Type

The Wall Street Journal's Brian Schwartz, Patrick Thomas and Natalie Andrews reported that "President Trump is considering providing $10 billion or more in aid to U.S. farmers as the agriculture sector warns of economic fallout from his far-reaching tariffs, according to people familiar with the...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says high input costs are affecting farmers across the United States.

The senior vice president for the American Coalition for Ethanol suggests there’s not a lot of opposition to year-round nationwide E15. Ron Lamberty says the only group publicly against permanent E15 legislation is the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Association.

Clayton Sellars became the first rodeo athlete to receive an AGwagon PRORODEO Special Edition when his Ford F-250 XL was recently delivered. Sellars is a four-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier, a Professional Bull Riders World Finals qualifier and the 2018 PRCA Resistol Rookie of the Year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide $480 million to make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous and strengthen global food security through its two premier international food assistance programs, McGovern-Dole and Food for Progress. These programs rely on and support American...

The U.S. hog herd got a little bit smaller over the past year. The USDA says that at the start of September 2025, the U.S. hog inventory was 1% below September 1, 2024, at 74.472 million head, with the marketing herd 1% under last year at 68.538 million head and the breeding herd dipping 2% to...

The USDA’s latest estimate is that U.S. farmers planted more than 98m acres of corn in 2025, the largest planting in nearly nine decades. In recent memory, 2025 acreage surpassed the 2012 high-water mark of 97.3m acres (Figure 1).

A senior meteorologist with AccuWeather says much of the country has entered fall in drought conditions. Brett Anderson said, “Drought covers a large portion of the Northeast all the way down the lower Mississippi Valley, up through the Midwest. And then, of course, you have the Western states and...

While application season is still weeks away, retailers and other suppliers are encouraging farmers to reserve product now. Farmers will be using more anhydrous ammonia this fall.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer, opening the path toward less air and water pollution worldwide and lower costs for farmers.

Both Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden  said recently that tariff revenue could be a way to help U.S. farmers survive a tough ag economy.

More than 260 national and state farm organizations and Farm Credit institutions recently appealed to congressional leaders to take up and pass legislation reauthorizing and revising farm programs not included in the domestic spending and tax law enacted in July.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently announced that two Taiwanese agricultural industry groups signed letters of intent to purchase Arkansas and U.S. products.