Jan 2, 2025 · Passed and signed into law in the early hours of Dec. 21, 2024 – the day a government shutdown would have begun if Congress had not acted – the American Relief Act of 2025 includes $31 billion in natural and economic disaster aid for farmers and ranchers, a second extension of the 2018 farm bill and $2.5 billion in additional aid to be distributed through USDA. This Market Intel breaks ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Farmers are in need of economic aid due to a third year of losses on every acre they plant, continued inflation and a bleak net farm income forecast.

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Nov 14, 2024 · Since 2022, over 100 million birds throughout the poultry industry have been affected by HPAI and egg layers and turkeys have been impacted the most.

Dec 16, 2024 · Applications are now open for USDA’s new $2 billion Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program which aims to help specialty crop producers manage heightened marketing costs and expand both current and new markets.

Aug 30, 2024 · Pasture conditions began to deteriorate across the United States in 2020. The La Niña-driven drought would press on for the next three years causing pasture conditions to deteriorate and sending prices for feed grains to record levels (Figure 2). At the same time, inflation began to rise, driving up costs for everyone in the United States, including farmers and ranchers. The combination of ...

Aug 5, 2024 · Cropland Value Like overall agricultural real estate values, average U.S. cropland values increased to record levels in 2024, rising to $5,570 per acre. This increase came in as a 4.7% increase over 2023, which is quite a bit less than the 8.1% jump over 2022 and earlier 7.8% increase in cropland values in 2021. In dollar values, this year-over-year increase was $250 per acre, the smallest ...

Feb 13, 2024 · New agriculture census data released by USDA today is cause for concern as the number of farms operating in the United States and the number of farm acres have both fallen significantly. The 2022 Census of Agriculture reports 141,733 fewer farms in 2022 than in 2017. The number of farm acres fell to 880,100,848, a loss of more than 20 million acres from just five years earlier. “The latest ...

Nov 21, 2024 · H-2A workers have become vital to American food production as the domestic workforce continues to move away from agricultural labor.

3 days ago · American Farm Bureau Federation is the unified national voice of agriculture, working through our grassroots organizations to enhance and strengthen the lives of rural Americans and to build strong, prosperous agricultural communities.