Jan 2, 2025 · Passed and signed into law in the early hours of Dec. 21, 2024 – the day a government shutdown would have begun if Congress had not acted – the American Relief Act of 2025 includes $31 billion in natural and economic disaster aid for farmers and ranchers, a second extension of the 2018 farm bill and $2.5 billion in additional aid to be distributed through USDA. This Market Intel breaks ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Farmers are in need of economic aid due to a third year of losses on every acre they plant, continued inflation and a bleak net farm income forecast.

Nov 14, 2024 · Since 2022, over 100 million birds throughout the poultry industry have been affected by HPAI and egg layers and turkeys have been impacted the most.

Aug 30, 2024 · Pasture conditions began to deteriorate across the United States in 2020. The La Niña-driven drought would press on for the next three years causing pasture conditions to deteriorate and sending prices for feed grains to record levels (Figure 2). At the same time, inflation began to rise, driving up costs for everyone in the United States, including farmers and ranchers. The combination of ...

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Dec 16, 2024 · Applications are now open for USDA’s new $2 billion Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program which aims to help specialty crop producers manage heightened marketing costs and expand both current and new markets.

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Oct 3, 2024 · Much of the new development of solar energy is occurring on farmland and in rural communities, it is critical that we prioritize the preservation of agricultural land.

Jan 23, 2025 · A useful collection of articles and videos about FUSION published by The American Farm Bureau Federation.

Feb 13, 2024 · New agriculture census data released by USDA today is cause for concern as the number of farms operating in the United States and the number of farm acres have both fallen significantly. The 2022 Census of Agriculture reports 141,733 fewer farms in 2022 than in 2017. The number of farm acres fell to 880,100,848, a loss of more than 20 million acres from just five years earlier. “The latest ...