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From the field
Cattle Futures Collapse as Ranchers Face Perfect Debt Storm
New H-2A Wage Rules Cost Farmworkers $3B Annually
USDA Invests $500M to Defang Fertilizer Monopoly
Record Heat Threatens Northern Plains Spring Wheat and Barley
Record Farm Debt and Interest Costs Driving Bankruptcy Surge
John Deere loses right-to-repair fight
More from the desk
EPA Replaces PFAS Risk Science With 'Voluntary' Guidance
The agency's new biosolids guidance ditches a science-based risk assessment for non-binding recommendations. Farmers already on contaminated land are left vulnerable.
The Fertilizer Squeeze: How a Handful of Giants Control Farm Costs
An FTC antitrust probe into nitrogen, phosphate, and potash giants reveals how industry consolidation is pricing family farms out of production.
44 Million Acres: America's Quiet Consolidation Crisis
Nearly 15% of U.S. cropland will change hands by 2029. Farm Journal Intelligence data shows 58% of small farms face acquisition risk, threatening the viability of family agriculture.
Next Generation Farmers Are Betting on Regeneration
Young farmers are choosing regenerative agriculture as both a survival strategy and a direct resistance to corporate consolidation, with USDA backing $700 million in pilot programs.
FTC Wins Right-to-Repair Deal: Farmers Can Fix Their Own Deeres
After an 18-month antitrust fight, the FTC secured a landmark settlement requiring John Deere to open repair access to farmers and independent shops for a decade.
USDA Backs Independent Beef Processors With $500M Crisis Program
The agriculture department launches SPUR, a half-billion-dollar effort to rescue small meat processors from the grip of industry consolidation.
The numbers behind the crisis
Real-time data on the foreign-ownership surge, commodity prices, and farm bankruptcy filings — all in one dashboard.
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Who's buying America's dirt — and why you should care.
The financial trap squeezing family farms out of existence.
Your tractor, their software — the fight to own what you bought.
Farmers, co-ops, and organizers refusing to go quietly.
What agribusiness is doing to the soil — and the people who work it.
The farmworkers keeping America fed — and the system designed to exploit them.
The Daily Dirt — Morning Edition
Cattle futures hit March lows, farmworker wage litigation continues, and fertilizer prices stabilize—a three-front economic squeeze on rural America.
- ▸ Cattle futures posted their lowest closes since March 11 as ranchers face a perfect debt storm: record farm debt at $624.7B, squeezed margins, and consolidating meatpackers setting prices.
- ▸ Federal court allows DOL's H-2A wage rule to remain in effect while litigation continues—United Farm Workers and 11 state AGs pushing for permanent block on wage cuts that could slash farmworker pay to $13.70/hr.
- ▸ Fertilizer prices fell for the fifth consecutive week in July, but nitrogen, phosphate, and potash remain 15-34% higher year-over-year, locking in farmer input costs for the season.