Can Dry Farming Help U.S. Farmers Cope with Drought?
Can Dry Farming Help U.S. Farmers Cope with Drought? In early 2019, the state of California was finally freed from the grips of a 376-week long drought. That’s more than seven years of dangerously low levels of freshwater for drinking, power, recreation, and...
US Apple Farmers Struggle with Nationwide Water Shortage
US Apple Farmers Struggle with Nationwide Water Shortage The increasingly evident realities of climate change are producing serious consequences for agriculture around the world, and apple farmers in the United States are no exception. Each passing year is bringing...
What Usually Happens During a Food Crisis?
What Usually Happens During a Food Crisis? A global or regional food crisis can begin suddenly and virtually without warning. Natural disasters, economic collapse, rampant disease are all potential agents which can produce a crash in an area’s ability to adequately...
How Closing the Mexican Border Will Impact the Dairy Industry
How Closing the Mexican Border Will Impact the Dairy Industry For years now, closing the United States’ border with Mexico has been a high priority on President Donald Trump’s agenda. In March 2019, the Trump Administration threatened to close large sections of the...
What Will Happen to Farmers if the Trade Conflict Isn’t Resolved Soon
What Will Happen to Farmers if the Trade Conflict Isn't Resolved Soon? In early 2018, the Trump administration imposed a tariff on Chinese-manufactured solar panels and washing machines in an effort to empower manufacturers and businesses here in the United States. To...
Devastating Consequences of Tariffs: Bankruptcies, Loan Delinquencies & More
Devastating Consequences of Tariffs: Bankruptcies, Loan Delinquencies & More To a very large degree, farmers depend for their livelihood and financial security on the vicissitudes of nature and foreign markets. When one of these variables shifts in an...
How to Prepare your Hobby Farm for a Global Food Crisis
How to Prepare your Hobby Farm for a Global Food Crisis If you’re a farmer, we’re guessing that you prefer to be self-reliant. You like to grow your own food, raise your own crops, look out for your own future. These are all important qualities to have in the case of...
Wisconsin Farmers Struggle in the Midst of a Crippling Dairy Crisis
Wisconsin Farmers Struggle in the Midst of a Crippling Dairy Crisis Since late 2014, the U.S dairy industry has been struggling through a fully-fledged economic crisis. Driven primarily by dwindling export markets and overproduction here at home, the plummeting value...
Could a Supply Management Program Solve the Dairy Crisis in the U.S.?
Could a Supply Management Program Solve the Dairy Crisis in the U.S.? Beginning around 2014, the U.S dairy industry entered a state of economic crisis. This most recent economic downturn is only the most recent iteration of a pattern that has plagued dairy farmers for...
Will U.S. Farmers Receive Additional Aid for Trade Wars in 2020?
Will U.S. Farmers Receive Additional Aid for Trade Wars in 2020? The United States’ escalating trade war with China has threatened the viability of nearly every sector of American industry, and farming and agriculture are no exceptions. In August of 2019, farmers...