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

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 ...

Mega-sized federal spending bills are so complex that they present numerous opportunities for making “sleight of legislation” pork barrel changes to existing programs and introducing new programs that ...

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson still wants to work on legislation that he calls “farm bill 2.0” this fall, but for now, farmers and ranchers scored significant wins with the ...

Farmers with cotton, rice and peanut base acreage stand to get the biggest subsidy increases under the changes Congress made to farm bill commodity programs through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ...

Farm groups are in line for big wins in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which includes significant increases in farm program spending, starting with the 2025 crop year, as well as an ...

Some farmers in Dickinson County who were enrolled in one of the USDA’s largest commodity support programs for the 2024 crop year believe they were significantly underpaid. Scott Titterington, who ...

USDA’s Richard Fordyce explains farm bill updates, tax relief, and federal support programs for California agriculture.