Beth Ford, president and CEO of Land O'Lakes, wrote a column in Time magazine this week sounding alarms about the farm economy and trends in agriculture. Ford spotlighted the continuing loss of farmers and implied that trend could get worse with the low prices that have plagued grain producers. "Grain farmers today are facing the most challenging economics since 2009. Food security is national security. Trade lanes are shifting. Interest rates are high. Commodity prices are e

It’s a balancing act — consumer demand, economic challenges and beef pricing. “The consumer has been saying I’m willing to work a little bit more to pay for that pound of beef,” says Lance Zimmerman, RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness senior beef industry analyst. “That’s a positive demand story.” Zimmerman’s analysis has found that regardless of income bracket, consumers are willing to work more minutes to afford a pound of beef. Click here to continue reading Angie Stump Dent

The U.S. economic outlook is currently obscured by several unconventional factors, including pervasive tariff policy uncertainty, a sharp deceleration in working-age population growth due to declining immigration, and a massive surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) investment, making traditional economic reports difficult to interpret. According to a new quarterly report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange, these issues—along with volatile import volumes and an erratic stock mar