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.
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.
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.
Chapter 12 filings reached 62 in April 2026, up 130 percent from April 2025, per Epiq AACER data, and the DOJ trustee program's FY2025 report landed March 5, 2026.
Documented payments range from about $6 per acre under Bayer's program to $30 per credit at Indigo, a spread wide enough that contract terms matter more than headline rates.
The Farm Credit System held $428.9 billion in loans at the end of 2024, per FCA data, and its underwriting is tightening where farm cash flows are weakest.