Americans trust farmers — but not always how they farm
Public confidence remains unusually high, yet growing distance from agriculture leaves farming practices vulnerable to suspicion and misinformation.
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Farmers are losing money — but this isn’t the 1980s farm crisis. Yet.
By Hope Kirwan, Harvest Public Media Corn and soybean farmers have faced negative profit margins for two years, with fertilizer, fuel and borrowing costs expected to climb further in 2026. Economists say today’s downturn differs from the 1980s because farms carry less debt and have access to crop insurance, safety-net programs and billions in emergency federal…
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America’s beginning farmers can’t afford to farm full time
High land costs, rising inputs and weak pricing power force most new producers to rely on off-farm jobs.
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New York farm town demands ban on paraquat amid Parkinson’s cluster
Residents of “Parkinson’s Valley” say decades of herbicide exposure have devastated their farming community.
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Financial | Food and Farming Crisis | Industry Monopolies | News | Perverse Farming Incentives | Saving Family Farms
Regenerative Practices Cut Costs and Chemical Use, Indiana Farmer Says
Rick Clark told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that reducing synthetic inputs can improve farm profitability, but education, lending rules and crop insurance remain barriers to adoption.
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New Hampshire Governor Vetoes On-Farm Slaughter Bill
Meryl Nass says the veto of HB 396, combined with federal rollbacks and the removal of the PRIME Act from the Senate Farm Bill, favors large meat processors over independent farmers and consumers.
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Egg giants settle price-fixing claims
Farm Action says the egg settlement lets dominant producers treat alleged price fixing as a business expense, not real accountability.
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Industry Monopolies | Livestock Farming | News | Perverse Farming Incentives | Regulatory Impediments
For egg giants, accountability is just another expense
Consumers paid record prices and contract farmers earned pennies while dominant egg producers amassed huge profits — then settled price-fixing allegations for a fraction of what they made.
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Senate Farm Bill Leaves Out ‘Save Our Bacon Act’ — For Now
A major procedural win for animals, but not the end of the fight as Big Pork looks for another opening in the Farm Bill.
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Washington ranch family says state crackdown is a pretext to take their land
Wade and Teresa King are fighting fines, lease termination, and a secret criminal investigation after cleaning long-used stock ponds on their ranch.
