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By Ben Laine, Senior Dairy Analyst Dairy markets are experiencing significant changes, and some early market impacts are beginning to appear. Two additional major cheese processing
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Denis Hoey was fresh out of college and learning to make wine in California’s Santa Cruz mountains when he had a sudden realization: this would be…
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Official ECAP Payment Rates Released
Background On December 21, 2024, Congress passed the American Relief Act of 2025, authorizing up to $10 billion in economic assistance to producers and about $20
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Decision Time Looms for ARC and PLC
With spring crop insurance decisions behind farmers, all eyes next turn to the April 15 deadline for enrollment in Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss
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Small Adjustments Coming for Beef-on-Dairy Calf Supplies
In a time of tight supplies for beef cattle and slim margins on dairies, dairy producers saw an opportunity to breed more of their cows to
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Does Dairy Need New Success Benchmarks?
(This information was originally presented during a January 21, 2025, GrowingOn® webinar hosted by Farm Credit Services of America®. Watch the recording here: GrowingOn® | FCSAmerica.)
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Can Macroeconomics Explain the Almond Market’s Improvements?
Describing the last few years in the almond market as challenging would be an understatement. Prices throttled by excess supply have been met with tariffs, increased
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Can BRICS+ Stack Away the U.S.?
As I have traveled the dirt roads of rural America, farmers have increasingly asked about the economic alliance known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South
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Lower Feed Prices Could Bolster 2025 Margins
“U.S. feed supply should be more than adequate in 2025, if weather cooperates. Given the expected lower feed prices, dairy farm margins should continue to improve
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Terrain™ Launches “The Big Shrink” Report Series
How Can U.S. Agriculture Prepare for an Aging and Peaking Global Population? OMAHA, Neb., and SANTA ROSA, Calif. – In the not-so-distant future, the global population…
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Best Trade Friends Forever?: Part 1
For anyone involved in agriculture during the mid-1990s to early 2000s, every crop conference, Extension meeting and farm radio show etched into our memories a common
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Cattle Are Going to Get Bigger
Carcass weights received a great deal of attention in 2024. But the increase in weights should be no surprise, as it follows a decades-long trend. While
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Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country
Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Craig, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. My name is John Newton, and
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Applications open for American AgCredit’s Rural Roots Endowment
LAS CRUCES, N.M., (Jan. 21, 2025) – Agriculture lender American AgCredit, a member of the Farm Credit System, has opened up applications to their Rural Roots…
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ARC and PLC to Offer Higher Support (for Some) in 2025
With Congress authorizing another one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill through September 30, 2025 (in addition to more than $30 billion in ad hoc assistance
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Walnut Prices Likely to Remain Elevated Into Early 2025
Situation After some of the most challenging years the industry has ever faced, California walnut growers have seen an impressive rebound in prices. The upswing is
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A Middle School Dream Come True – Basinger Land & Cattle
Today, Chad and his wife, Cassondra, own and operate Basinger Land & Cattle in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, about 50 miles west of Wichita. Here on scenic…
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What Farmers Can Expect From the American Relief Act
The American Relief Act of 2025 provided the USDA with nearly $31 billion to deliver ad hoc financial assistance to crop and livestock farmers experiencing economic
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Economic Growth Dampens Rate Cut Hopes
By Matt Clark, Senior Rural Economy Analyst Multiple regional wars around the world. A change in the White House. A change in the Senate majority. Somewhat
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Corn Has Planting Upper Hand Over Milo, Soybeans
It’s the time of year when the annual discussion begins on spring planting acre numbers — and what that means for prices. Early indicators hint that
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Macadamia Prices Expected to Recover for Hawaii Growers
Macadamia nuts in Hawaii are recovering from the lowest prices seen in a decade. Short-term price increases are expected to continue, but medium- and long-term challenges
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