As farmers face high input costs, low commodity prices and a postponed farm bill, the USDA is issuing up to $10 billion in direct economic assistance to agricultural producers
Expectations are for the price burden to continue through 2025 as producers work to repopulate laying hens lost to HPAI
An escalating tariff battle between the United States and several of its largest trading partners may affect U.S. growers in Arkansas
“Well over half” of Arkansas’ row-crop producers rely on a federal migration program to fill jobs on their farms, according to John McMinn, an Arkansas Farm Bureau commodity and economics specialist
“No doubt we’ll see a few more farm auctions this winter,”
Despite record yields in 2024, many growers in Arkansas ended the year in the red; 2025 will likely prove just as challenging
The economic clouds from 2024 are expected to persist into 2025 as progress toward a new Farm Bill stagnated, commodity prices lagged and profit margins for farmers remained razor thin at year’s end
