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The nation’s producers ended 2022 on a high note as improved financial standing lifted the spirits of farmers and ranchers across the country.

A monthly survey of how farmers and ranchers view the rural economy was unchanged in November as producers digested the results of the midterm elections.

A measurement of the sentiment in farm country dropped for the second straight month as concerns about slipping prices emerge among the already-potent worries about the input costs producers will face in 2023.

The National Council for Agricultural Education has tapped Travis Park to be the new director of agricultural education, National FFA board chair and National FFA adviser, and former North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has been named director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

A new survey of producers shows worries about the nation’s financial policy are swelling as growers look to make plans for the 2023 growing season and strategize for the broader future of their operations.

The nation’s producers are feeling a little better about the state of farm finances but are still a little worried about the prices they’ll receive for their commodities, and those they will have to pay for important inputs in the next year.

Producers across the country are in the most pessimistic about the farm economy since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Farmers and ranchers are increasingly worried about supplies of key inputs for the upcoming growing season, lowering a measure of producer sentiment to the lowest point since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.