Are Production Problems Brewing in Brazil?

Since 2013, a Chinese meat-packing conglomerate has owned Smithfield Foods, which comprises 20% of American pork slaughter and includes about 150,000 acres around their plants and production facilities in the U.S. With the current focus on foreign ownership of farmland, John Phipps questions if Chinese ownership of pork is a larger threat to U.S. farms and food consumers.

Farmers are opting to tap into their savings from recent prosperous years instead of taking out loans at the highest interest rates since 2007, according to surveys conducted by regional Federal Reserve banks.

For cow-calf producers, fall is often a time for preconditioning, weaning and marketing calves. While prices will likely be toward the top end this year, you might still be leaving money on the table.

Rural America faces three roadblocks on the path to electric machinery adoption.