Agribusiness

What 100% bonus depreciation means for your next equipment purchase

Seven working steps for farm succession planning

With the average U.S. producer at 58.1 years old and most farmland on the edge of a generational transfer, a documented succession process is the difference between a plan and an auction.

The economics of drought resilience on ranches

Drought forces ranchers into a documented sequence of costly decisions, depopulate, buy feed, or haul water, and the operations that fare best are those that made resilience investments before the dry year.

What the 2022 Census of Agriculture says about who farms

Fewer and larger farms, an average producer age of 58.1, and a renting majority of farmland acres: the census is the fullest picture of U.S. farm structure available.

What an H-2A worker actually costs an operation

The 2025 H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rates averaged roughly $17.43 per hour nationally, per the Department of Labor data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute, but wages are only about half the true cost once housing, transport, and compliance are counted.