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Farm Income Outlook for 2025 

Trimble Agriculture

Farm income is expected to take a turn in 2025, after two years of consecutive decline. agricultural economy faced financial headwinds in 2024, but new USDA farm income projections indicate that net farm income will increase in 2025, largely due to the substantial rise in government payments.

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Letter Urging Congress to Pass a Bipartisan Farm Bill in 2023

NASDA

As a result of persistently high input costs and rapidly declining commodity and food crop prices, the USDA now projects that this year’s drop in both net farm income and net cash income will be the largest decline of all time, down $42 billion and $54 billion, respectively.

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

Throughout the life of the current farm bill, producers across the country have experienced powerful headwinds, ranging from extreme weather to high input costs to uncertain global demand to supply chain disruptions. Farmers are struggling, and the decline in the farm economy is real. Estimated 2024 net farm income for U.S.

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Five Ways To Increase Farm Profitability 

Trimble Agriculture

The USDA expects a decrease in farm sector profits this year. Net farm income is forecast at $136.9 In farming, input costs typically include items like seeds, fertilizer, feed, and more. Create An Estate Plan Creating an estate plan is essential for farm continuity.

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The 2023 Agricultural Year in Review

Agricultural Economics Insights

June Acreage Surprise Perhaps the biggest story in the grain market was the June acreage report, which revealed the low soybean/corn price ratio in late 2022 did its job of motivating producers to plant corn. F ertilizer Prices Return to Earth Throughout 2023, fertilizer prices have been significantly lower. 2018 was 5.2

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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