Farmers' Advance

12/01/2025

The Rev. Martin Lam Nguyen fled Vietnam in 1979 and now teaches art at Notre Dame and a prison, helping inmates better their art and themselves.

12/01/2025

Michigan homeless service providers warn of more people entering into homelessness amid changes to how the federal government funds housing programs.

12/01/2025

The team behind HOME Court in Newark is trying a different approach to criminal justice in helping people who are homeless better their lives.

12/01/2025

Water experts predict industrial demand will increase in central Ohio by 120% between 2021 and 2050 to 250 million gallons a day, requiring irrigation.

11/26/2025

It’s late November and it’s time to actually have some winter weather. It’s an opportunity to be grateful for the upcoming change and reflect upon our recent journeys.

11/26/2025

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11/26/2025

"Indiana has been the hotbed of activity in the last month, with outbreaks in 28 commercial and 21 backyard flocks infecting 666,310 birds, according to the APHIS dashboard."

'Indiana has been the hotbed of activity in the last month, with outbreaks in 28 commercial and 21 backyard flocks infecting 666,310 birds, according to the APHIS dashboard.'

11/25/2025

For months farmers have pleaded for government aid to soften the blow of trade wars and another unprofitable harvest. But even with the Trump administration receptive to the idea and the government again open, most farmers and bankers have concluded that any aid will be too little and too late.

11/25/2025

Thanksgiving was first proclaimed by George Washington on Oct. 3, 1789, to be celebrated on November 26, 1789. Abraham Lincoln made it a national holiday on the last Thursday of November to proclaim it as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

11/25/2025

“U.S. farmers and grain traders have been awaiting shipments to China to resume after Beijing shunned U.S. crops for months due to a trade war with Washington, costing U.S. farmers billions on lost trade,” Reuters’ Karl Plume reported.

11/25/2025

"Farmer bankruptcies doubled in this year’s first quarter versus the same period a year ago."

11/25/2025

"If payments were the answer, then the problems should be solved by now. At the end of last year, Congress authorized over $30 billion in ad hoc/emergency supplemental payments, including $10 billion for economic assistance."

In fact, continue Coppess and Doering, "Since 2018," when the current Farm Bill was passed, "USDA and/or Congress have paid nearly $176 billion (real 2025) in inflation-adjusted economic assistance to farmers." These payments, on average, equal about "$6.5 billion per year from commodities subsidy programs and an astounding $15.5 billion per year in ad hoc or supplemental assistance."

But they surmise, "Ultimately, federal taxpayer-funded payments are no match for the tough reality of lost demand or damaged markets."

"Policy responses, like payments, that keep costs high while prices and incomes drop are paying farmers to drive combines over the proverbial cliff and into crisis. Can we do better this time around?"

"Ultimately, federal taxpayer-funded payments are no match for the tough reality of lost demand or damaged markets."