For nearly 100 years, the history of the farm bill largely tracks the history of food production in the United States as the legislation has evolved to meet the needs of farmers and consumers alike.
Many are anticipating a tough year financially for farmers in 2025, but experts urge producers to not let up on their crop insurance policies. The end rows of a corn field north of Mandan, North ...
Based on yield reports from many areas of the upper Midwest, it is likely that a significant number of corn and soybean producers may qualify for crop insurance indemnity payments in 2024. The excess ...
Day to day, running a farm takes a lot of work. “You can see the soybean pods starting to form,” Lee Tesdell, a farm owner in Iowa, said. Farms are facing more and more unknowns due to a changing ...
Crop insurance industry leaders, former congressmen and commodity groups gathered recently for their annual industry conference to highlight the importance of their public-private partnership, the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — With the unfriendly farm economy, those who have the biggest challenge are young farmers. However, some ...
Even as action on a new farm bill has stalled, a proposal to boost crop insurance subsidies is generating new debate on and off Capitol Hill. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow is ...
University of Missouri Extension senior research associate Ben Brown explores the Farm Bill, or lack thereof, and the ...
Federally subsidized crop insurance made record-high payouts last year. While climate change is making farming more risky, the federal program often shields producers at taxpayer expense. Some argue ...
As part of the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown, Congress passed a yearlong extension of the 2018 farm bill, which expired earlier this year. And while bipartisanship in Washington can be ...
“The kind of money that I've been talking to Sen. Schumer about is enough for us to do something really good on crop insurance, to fix the dairy program, (and) to do something on reference prices,” ...