President Trump’s latest request extends a run of interventions intended to help the nation’s agricultural economy.

The Agriculture Department is lowering its forecast for farm earnings in 2025 as declines in the crop sector more than offset soaring incomes for cattle producers. Net cash farm income, a measure of ...

USDA is projecting that net farm income will increase sharply this year, largely due to an infusion of $31 billion in disaster aid and market relief assistance provided by Congress in December. Net ...

Farmers have felt the crunch of higher expenses and lower farm-gate prices in the past year, and a study affirms those views. Scott Brown, an Extension associate professor at the University of ...

On December 21, 2024, the US Congress passed the American Relief Act (ARA), which provided funds to cover losses by households and many economic sectors from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024. The ...

As farmers face the reality of falling commodity prices and tighter margins in 2024, the latest Ag Economists’ Monthly Monitor shows a projected major drop in net farm income this year with interest ...

Net farm income in the United States is projected to reach $177 billion in 2025, a sharp increase from $128 billion in 2024. This is according to the latest update of the annual U.S. farm income and ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (Reuters) — U.S. farm incomes are forecast to fall sharply for a second consecutive year, as direct government payments shrink, production costs surge and growing supplies of grains ...

Congress was originally planning to approve a new farm bill on or before September 30, 2023, when several major policy provisions in the 2018 Farm Bill were set to expire. That date has come and gone, ...