Allie Herring

During the first quarter of 2025, 88 family farms in the U.S. filed for bankruptcy — nearly double the number from the same period last year. Looking to the rest of the year, experts don't expect the trend to change.

U.S. farmers are less hopeful about the current and future farm economy but are optimistic when it comes to trade.

A motion by the government to pause a preliminary injunction on President Trump’s executive order excluding most federal workers from collective bargaining agreements was granted by the Ninth Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals.

The EU is suspending tariff retaliation against the U.S. following the recent U.S.-EU tariff agreement.

Deportation policy uncertainty has farms on edge, renewing a push for Congress to expand the H-2A program to increase legal farmworkers. But it may take President Trump to weigh in, and even that may not be enough.

Overall trust in the country’s food supply safety is dropping according to an annual food and health survey.

A JBS production plant in Iowa is issuing deportation notices to employees from Haiti, Cuba, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Texas will use a 1970s-era method to fight the spread of New World screwworm.

The San Joaquin River will be seeing some construction in the next few years, as the Arroyo Canal Fish Screen and Sack Dam Fish Bypass Project works to improve fish passage in the river through its recent $93 million grant from the Bureau of Reclamation.

There may be an end in sight for record-high beef prices in the coming months, though Southern Ag Today analysts warn these falling prices are unlikely to fall below last year’s levels.