Farm management analyst Kent Thiesse shares a summary of current and potential farm program payments for 2026.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) made significant modifications to USDA mandatory farm programs and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Following these changes, the ...

More than 260 national and state farm organizations and Farm Credit institutions appealed to congressional leaders Thursday to take up and pass legislation reauthorizing and revising farm programs not ...

The advent of much lower corn and soybean market prices, together with reduced 2024 corn and soybean yields, has resulted in the likelihood of 2024 corn and soybean ARC-CO farm program payments in ...

A recent Armed to Farm training, held in rural Kentucky, introduced veterans to careers in sustainable agriculture while giving them a place to connect, and a support system to lean on. An Armed to ...

Helping young and beginning farmers get rolling in agriculture is one of the top priorities for Farm Foundation, the first U.S. agriculture and food think tank, which was established 92 years ago in ...

In the 1980s and 1990s Democrats offered some great proposals for farm bill reform that managed supply along the lines of the original New Deal programs, protecting both farmers and consumers, and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ruled last week that it already “sufficiently addressed” past discrimination and that continuing to practice “race- and sex-based remedies” are no longer necessary ...

Authorization for the Conservation Reserve Program and other farm bill programs not included in this summer’s budget reconciliation bill have lapsed amid the shift to a new fiscal year. House Ag ...

The nation's top farm payment county over that decade was Gaines County, Texas, which pulled in a staggering $169.6 million in "estimated total payments." The second biggest pile went to Cavalier ...

The Department of Crop Sciences’ Small Farm Certificate Program is celebrating the completion of its inaugural year with its first graduate, Lia Basden. The program is an intensive nine-month course ...

I sit at the lunch table knowing my food is getting cold, too busy writing to eat. My two table mates are eager to tell me their stories. They are both veterans, attending an Armed to Farm training ...