Browsing: farming
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…
Meet the 82-year-old Kentucky grandma who turned down $26 million to turn her farm into data centers
Ida Huddleston has lived on the same stretch of farmland outside Maysville, Kentucky, since she was 16. She and her…
Mark Zuckerberg feeds his own cattle nuts and beer to create ‘highest quality beef in the world’
When Mark Zuckerberg isn’t leading a $1.5 trillion company, he’s finding other ways to keep busy, with no less ambition…
The scale of global AgFoodTech topped $16 billion in 2025. Investors have poured billions into AgTech, including smart machinery, automated…
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…
Collecting data is one of the most important facets of regenerative agriculture as it stands today. In order to grow…
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…
‘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…
Bat deaths over the last two decades have cost American taxpayers in lost crops and higher taxes
As of March 2026, the fungus causing white-nose syndrome had been detected in 47 states, reaching as far west as…












