The past few years have tested even the most seasoned farmers. Facing rising input costs, unpredictable market access and many other challenges, farmers and ranchers are working harder while margins grow thinner.
At Farm Bureau, we believe that strength is not measured in bushels or bales. It’s measured in our willingness to look out for one another.
Beef imports into the United States market have exploded over the past two years — and no one in the industry wants to say anything about it.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program feeds more than 41 million people in America every month. That’s roughly one in eight people in this country.
“I hated being hungry,” said my mother, born into dirt and poverty on a tenant farm in east-central Nebraska in 1932.
As the fall harvest season comes to a close, farmers are carefully studying their balance sheets.
The U.S. sheep industry reveals what happens when our nation ignores market failure for too long, and it’s a case study applicable to every livestock sector in America.
Paradox seems to be the guiding principle of today’s food policies.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins cheerfully predicted that the Trump immigration policy would soon remake the U.S. farm workforce into “100% American.”
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