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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Once-soaring land values appear to be softening in some parts of the U.S., a trend some rural bankers expect to continue as weaker-than-normal commodity prices and high input costs weigh on farmers’ bottom lines.
Shuttered bars, restaurants, and food courts across the country are slowly opening back up, but experts say it could take years before they’re experiencing pre-pandemic levels of business.
In Creighton University's Rural Main Street Index for October, bankers report a growing economy overall in the nation's heartland but a lagging, tariff-encumbered farm sector.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - The 2017 economic performance for agriculture in the American Heartland is being affected by uncertain and volatile commodity markets and weather, to be sure, but it may wrap up little changed from 2016 overall.
