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Farmland’s Family Transfer

How it starts: A huge generational land transfer is already underway, with aging landowners, heirs, trusts, LLCs and non-operating landlords turning farmland succession into a very expensive family group project. By the acres: More than 2 million landowners rented out 348 million acres of farmland in 2024, and 79% of those rented acres were owned by non-farming landlords. USDA also says about 43 million acres are expected to transfer ownership within five years, before wills

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Farmland’s Family Transfer

How it starts: A huge generational land transfer is already underway, with aging landowners, heirs, trusts, LLCs and non-operating landlords turning farmland succession into a very expensive family group project. By the acres: More than 2 million landowners rented out 348 million acres of farmland in 2024, and 79% of those rented acres were owned by non-farming landlords. USDA also says about 43 million acres are expected to transfer ownership within five years, before wills

Livestock

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Tyson’s Beef Exit Gets Rare

The beef business is doing that thing where the steak is expensive, the packers are losing money and everyone involved looks equally annoyed. Plant math: Tyson is closing its Joslin, Illinois, beef plant and looking to sell its Pasco, Washington, facility as the cattle supply stays painfully tight. Joslin employs more than 2,300 people, which makes this more than just a spreadsheet with bad vibes. Not a one-off: This follows the company’s earlier Lexington, Nebraska, closure,

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FDA Puts GRAS on the Guest List

Food ingredient oversight may finally get a better guest book, which is awkward news for mystery additives that preferred entering through the side door. The proposal: FDA wants companies to notify regulators before bringing new ingredients or additives to market under the “generally recognized as safe” pathway. Right now, companies can make that call on their own, which is convenient in the same way leaving your toddler alone with frosting is convenient. Fine print: GRAS doe

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Farmland’s Family Transfer

How it starts: A huge generational land transfer is already underway, with aging landowners, heirs, trusts, LLCs and non-operating landlords turning farmland succession into a very expensive family group project. By the acres: More than 2 million landowners rented out 348 million acres of farmland in 2024, and 79% of those rented acres were owned by non-farming landlords. USDA also says about 43 million acres are expected to transfer ownership within five years, before wills

Livestock

4 hours ago

Tyson’s Beef Exit Gets Rare

The beef business is doing that thing where the steak is expensive, the packers are losing money and everyone involved looks equally annoyed. Plant math: Tyson is closing its Joslin, Illinois, beef plant and looking to sell its Pasco, Washington, facility as the cattle supply stays painfully tight. Joslin employs more than 2,300 people, which makes this more than just a spreadsheet with bad vibes. Not a one-off: This follows the company’s earlier Lexington, Nebraska, closure,

Livestock

4 hours ago

FDA Puts GRAS on the Guest List

Food ingredient oversight may finally get a better guest book, which is awkward news for mystery additives that preferred entering through the side door. The proposal: FDA wants companies to notify regulators before bringing new ingredients or additives to market under the “generally recognized as safe” pathway. Right now, companies can make that call on their own, which is convenient in the same way leaving your toddler alone with frosting is convenient. Fine print: GRAS doe

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Beef Prices Still Have Room to Moo-ve

Cattle prices may not have hit the ceiling yet, which is welcome news for sellers and less charming news for anyone who enjoys buying brisket without first checking their credit score. By the numbers: David Anderson, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension livestock marketing economist and professor, said smaller cattle supplies and continued beef demand could keep prices moving higher. At the recent short course, he pointed to slow herd rebuilding as the reason beef production i

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3 days ago

Food Safety Has a Produce Problem

Fresh produce is having a rough run, and the salad drawer is starting to look less wholesome and more like a risk-management exercise with ranch dressing. Lettuce pray: Federal investigators have been tracking a nine-state Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The investigation grew after nearly 2,000 cases were reported among people who had eaten at Taco Bell, which is not

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Farm Bill Tractor Stalls

The Senate farm bill did not make it out of the gate before August recess. So yes, farmers are once again waiting on Congress, which is basically crop rotation but for disappointment. How it started: U.S. Senator John Boozman, R-Ark., chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, had hoped to move his Farm Bill 2.0 discussion draft through committee before the break. The draft included more than 100 bipartisan priorities, including risk management, conservation flexibility, spec

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3 days ago

Debt Relief Gets Planted

Young farmers may get a little debt relief before their student loans start charging rent on the combine. How it starts: U.S. Representative Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., U.S. Representative Joe Courtney, D-Conn., U.S. Representative Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, and U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., introduced the Young Farmer Success Act to make qualified farm and ranch work count toward federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The dirt: Earlier versions of the bill

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Aug 7

Farm Bill Gets a Paper Bale

The Senate farm bill is back at the policy feed bunk, and everyone has brought a scoop. The big pile: U.S. Senator John Boozman, R-Ark., chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, released Farm Bill 2.0 with more than 100 bipartisan priorities tucked inside. That is not a bill summary, that is a policy hay bale with footnotes. What’s in the wagon: The draft is pitched around stronger risk management, conservation flexibility, specialty crops, drought tools, rural small busine

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