The news that the last American penny has been minted feels a bit like watching an old barn finally sag to the ground.

Rural America and farm country has a long history of sending out these brave men and women and supporting them when they return home.

Did farm and ranch leaders forget the enormous impact SNAP spending has on rural America’s bottom line?

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.