The USDA projects farm sector profits to increase sharply in 2025 after declining the previous year, but an ag economist thinks economic aid and disaster assistance are disguising market conditions.

The University of Minnesota and the Southern MN Agricultural Center of Excellence released the 2024 Farm Business Management Summary for southern Minnesota earlier this spring. The summary showed that ...

Farm profits are projected to jump 40% in 2025, yet shoppers see little relief at the checkout. Instead, grocery inflation keeps grinding higher, widening the gap between what farms earn and what ...

In this issue of “Focus on Ag”, I am highlighting my “Top 5 Ag Topics” for 2025, based on issues that were discussed in the columns throughout the year. If there were a “2025 word of the year” in ...