"The suicide rate for farmers is three and a half times that of the general public, and any life lost is just heartbreaking.

315 Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies filed in 2025, up 46% from 2024. Midwest and Southeast regions recorded the largest increases. U.S. farm debt projected to reach $624.7 billion in 2026. Declining ...

Strong livestock profits and high yields lifted incomes last year, but rising mediation cases, tight margins and input cost volatility point to ongoing financial stress heading in 2026.

According to the 2026 Feeding the Economy report, food and agriculture supports $10.4 trillion in economic output, making up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A soybean farm. (Getty Images.) Making the same screw up twice and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, the ...

After a nearly $900 billion surge in growth over the past year, the U.S. food and agriculture industry continues to serve as ...

Government subsidies are keeping the nation’s farm economy afloat even more than last year. USDA is forecasting that farm income will be relatively stable this year only because of increased ...

As a farmer, I don’t need a spreadsheet to tell me when times are hard. I see it every day and hear it in conversations with farmers across the country. The farm economy remains under real pressure, ...

Each year, the Feeding the Economy Report measures the downstream, off-the-farm economic impact of U.S. agriculture. Danny Munch, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, said the report ...

LANSING – As Michigan loses more farms, rural communities are experiencing significant changes, experts say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Michigan lost about 1,300 farms between ...