Net farm income is a comprehensive indicator of U.S. farm profitability – for all crops and livestock – and includes cash receipts from farming as well as farm-related income, including government ...

North farmer Jeffrey Axson says Mother Nature was somewhat kinder in 2017 than the past two years, helping to create an overall good crop year. "It has not been like the last two years," said Axson.

Irrigation and other technology are key players for North farmer Jerry Axson and others in The T&D. Yet in 2017, a kinder Mother Nature was the major reason for a mostly good year for farming. More ...

The 2017 Census of Agriculture was released last week to much-deserved fanfare. The Census of Ag is a herculean effort undertaken by USDA every five years by a staff of dedicated professionals intent ...

Farm income improved in 2017, but it didn't spring back, according to a new report from the South Dakota Center for Farm/Ranch Management at Mitchell Technical Institute. Center program director Will ...

Bobby and Chelsea Losh-Jones, with their son, Tripp, at Babe + Sage Farm, which they started in 2011. As Bobby Jones was getting ready to start his own farm several years ago in rural Georgia, he ran ...