News, Insights & Interviews Archive

Most Americans aren’t farmers. Only about 2% of adults in the United States are farmers or ranchers. Most Americans don’t understand how...

Tariff skeptics are plentiful these days. Chad Tentinger is not one of them. Tentinger is a lifelong cattle farmer from northwest Iowa...

California’s farmland values have been falling, much like Scott Bozzo, the state’s American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers 2025 farm manager of the year, expected. A rising number of bankruptcies, fortunately, have not sent those values into a free fall. But the state has still lost an estimated $17 billion in farmland value over the past year, Bozzo estimates.

Interest rates are not as high right now as some fear, and the policymakers in charge of setting those rates should be free from...

What really became evident in the fourth quarter of 2024 will be a trend to watch in 2025, according to Luke Worrell, Worrell Land...

Andre Faul, Jr., never expected to be running a fundraiser just to break even on 1,300-pound meat delivery to a local school district....

Strong agricultural communities – which are primarily smaller, rural towns – rely on the need for certain foundational strengths: access...

Change can be difficult. Talking about it might be even tougher sometimes. But when the subject comes to the future viability of your...

Small towns can bring big opportunities, and Natalie Kovarik is working on making that true for her family, too. Kovarik grew up in a...