Labor demands continue to tax the bottom lines of farmers and ranchers, with rising wage rates and record usage of the H-2A visa program. Ag organizations say that meaningful reforms …
Farm Economy
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DENVER (December 2020) —The speed of the economic recovery will largely hinge on the availability, dissemination and reach of COVID-19 vaccines, pushing the expected burst of pent-up consumer demand into …
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The U.S. rural economy will continue to face headwinds in 2020 and is expected to underperform relative to the economy of urban America according to CoBank’s forecast for next year. …
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WASHINGTON (DTN) — There were fewer middle-sized farms in 2017 than five years earlier, and the age of the average farm operator continues to tick upward, according to results of …
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The recently introduced Family Farmer Relief Act of 2019 (S.897) will help family farmers reorganize after falling on hard times, which more and more of them are experiencing due to …
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Ronald A. Wirtz, Director-Regional Outreach, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis There’s an old truism (among many) about farmers: Farmers have to be optimists, or they wouldn’t still be farmers. That …
