Agriculture

With lettuce sales down nationwide, more people are looking to buy local. That can be a mixed bag for farmers.

A tough farm economy and historically high equipment prices are partly to blame.

Federal data shows a 5.7% bump in agriculture export prices year-over-year in July. That’s the largest 12-month increase since 2022.

“Beef on the hoof” from Mexico will take months to fatten before slaughter, and it’s not clear how increasing imports from Argentina would work.

Christopher Joe runs birdwatching tours on his father’s Black Angus cattle farm in Alabama.

Ticks are spreading in the U.S., and carrying diseases like Lyme and alpha-gal syndrome, which causes an allergy to red meat. That could cost the livestock industry billions.

The closures may turn out to be a problem when the size of the herd bounces back.

One of Colorado’s most productive peach farmers is preparing for the possibility that irrigation water may be turned off before the harvest is finished.

House Republicans this week proposed a $95 billion reconciliation package that would fund things like defense, the war against Iran, and farm relief initiatives.

The U.S. imports about a third of its fertilizer.