News, Insights & Interviews Archive

Adam Chappell heard his father’s warnings when he was growing up.  He should get a college degree and do something else rather than...

When Blake Hansen describes his family’s seventh-generation Iowa dairy farm, Hansen’s Dairy , as “status quo,” he might need a “sort of”...

After roughly one in eight U.S. farms disappeared or became part of someone else’s farm in the past quarter century, it could make a...

Corn is growing in parts of North Dakota where it didn’t used to grow. Citrus production has fallen 90% over the past two decades in...

Supply has been down, while demand has remained strong. Those two forces helped keep farmland values up nationally, Randy Dickhut believes. Relying on his 30 years of farming experience and 20 years in farm management and land brokerage work, he thinks that interest will remain strong in the final months of 2025.

Arkansas is seeing a sharp rise in Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies—more than almost any other state. Dr. Ryan Loy, ag economist at the University of Arkansas, warns the financial stress is deeper than reported, as farmers struggle with high input costs, weak commodity prices, and fading pandemic-era support. With 15 bankruptcies from April 2024 to March 2025—the most in nearly a decade—experts are calling for stronger financial tools and policy support to help farmers stay afloa

Several factors can weigh down farmland values, said Tim Koch, Farm Credit Services of America Executive Vice President - Business...

Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts . This year has brought six months of uncertainty and chaos for farm producers and...

They didn’t start with black raspberries, peaches, gooseberries, or currants. But they also didn’t know that customers would drive...

Mary Swander’s show is back on the road with the same mission: to use a unique way to get farm families across the country thinking about...

While members of Congress, lobby groups, and impacted Americans argued over the ramifications of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill Act,”...

If the Drost family had a mission statement on the welcome mat at their front door, it might include this word: “balance.” Jackson and...

Since a Wyoming farm boy who expected a longer career as a lighting technician for film and television never anticipated that he would...

Diesel engine not running right? Need help combining? Looking for help in how to master the sales industry? Rob Taylor can help with all...

Jolene Riessen lost her husband of 32 years, David, to cancer in 2019, so she understands the concerns about the state’s rising rate of...

A challenge for his industry is an opportunity for Connor McMahon. That is why this California transplant from rural Iowa gets out on the...

In the early 2000s, corn prices were hovering around $1.80 a bushel. It was a bleak economic reality that pushed many American farmers,...

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.