Browsing: agriculture
American billionaires are on a farmland buying spree that risks pricing actual farmers out
America’s wealthiest are snapping up huge swathes of farmland, and while some are using it for their elaborate hobbies, agriculture…
It didn’t take long for Mexican avocado picker Francisco Isidro to get back to work after authorities announced the lifting…
Record beef prices are minting fortunes for ranchers—but straining the farmers who fatten the cattle
Last week, Tyson Foods CEO Donnie King offered investors a sobering report on beef prices: “Beef hasn’t performed the way…
Rural America is already being crushed by an economic crisis and now faces a ‘mini-Dust Bowl’ risk
The U.S. farm economy has been fighting one battle after another in recent years, but a new threat is on…
El Niño events have led to trillions in economic losses, and the 2026 cycle won’t be any different
Just as the global economy cautiously emerges from one crisis, another is beckoning at the doorstep, one that is completely…
The US’s best weapon against a deadly cattle parasite threatening the beef industry is more than a year away from showing meaningful…
‘MAGA Warrior’ Texas ag chief blasts USDA over a flesh-eating pest threatening America’s beef supply
A flesh-eating parasite’s reemergence in Texas after six decades isn’t just threatening to impose millions of dollars in losses on…
Why Americans are paying so much for beef, despite the U.S. being a leading meat producer
It’s officially grilling season in the U.S., but when it comes to one of the most beloved protein sources in…
California farmers will destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes canning facilities
For many warm weather fruit lovers, the prospect of unlimited ripe and rosy peaches is mouth-watering. For Central California farmers,…
Farmers across the Great Plains are confronting an intense drought that threatens winter wheat harvests and is pushing cattle producers toward costly…












