Business coverage of the companies and conditions surrounding agriculture: equipment and input manufacturer results, fertilizer and fuel pricing, farm credit availability, land and machinery values, and food company earnings. Reporting connects each development to farm operating cost or income, with the timing a grower would need for budgeting.
Earnings from equipment and input makers, credit conditions, fuel and fertilizer pricing, and corporate moves that change what farming costs.
USDA caps the facility loan at $500,000 with 15 percent down and terms of three to 12 years. Here is what the rules require, what August 2026 rates were, and how the storage cost compares.
Tanya Brooks
Women were 1.22 million of 3.4 million US producers, 36 percent, in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, and 58 percent of farms count at least one woman in decision-making.
Tanya Brooks
Robotic milking raised dairy net returns 13 percent on average, per USDA ERS report ERR-356 released January 22, 2026, and adoption data shows where the gains concentrate.
Tanya Brooks
Organic corn traded near $6.50-$7.00 per bushel at the start of the 2025 harvest, per Brownfield reporting, well below the $9.98 average and $5.14 premium of recent USDA-cited data.
Tanya Brooks
From the March 2024 Baltimore bridge collapse to the October 2024 port strike and H5N1 in dairy, documented disruptions point to the same farm-level playbook.
Tanya Brooks
