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Farm Income News: Net Farm Income Falls Below the 10-Year Average 

Trimble Agriculture

This is the largest year-over-year decline in income the agriculture sector has ever seen. If realized, net farm income would fall to $116.1 In this article, we’ll dig into what factors are influencing farm income in 2024 and what farmers can do to weather it. billion, placing it below the 10-year average.

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USDA Will Implement Long-Awaited Change to Country-of-Origin Labeling Rules

Daily Yonder

A long awaited rule that changes which meat and poultry goods can bear the label “Product of U.S.A.” We will see profits increase for actual American beef producers because that will be the only product that’s labeled ‘product of the U.S.A.,’ to be labeled “Product of U.S.A” to be labeled “Product of U.S.A”

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

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. A statutory minimum payment of $4,000 per year.

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Report Recap: Four Factors Impacting Farm Income in 2023 

Trimble Agriculture

In 2022, landowners experienced record high farm income, with net farm income reaching $183 billion. Net Farm Income and Cash Farmer Income, Inflation Adjusted (billion dollars) Note: F = forecast. Source: USDA, Economic Research Service, Farm Income and Wealth Statistics.

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Eight Challenges for U.S. Agriculture in 2024 and How to Mitigate Them 

Trimble Agriculture

In 2023, inflation-adjusted net farm income is forecasted to decline 20 percent, falling from several years of record highs. This trend is expected to continue into 2024, albeit at a slower pace, with income falling close to the five-year average. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is falling behind.

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FAPRI forecasts falling prices for producers

Todays Farmer Magazine

Unfavorable weather, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, avian influenza and a host of other factors resulted in high commodity prices, high farm production costs and high consumer food price inflation in 2022. Higher fertilizer, fuel and feed costs contributed to a sharp increase in farm production expenses in 2022.