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Nicholas Smith/Getty Images MAINTAINING VALUE: Land prices stayed strong through soft crop prices, thanks to government payments and investors. Even the pandemic added strength as a wave of urban buyers sought farmland for the first time. Demand for land is on the rise, with many factors at work to broaden the demand picture. Randy Dickhut shares that Farmers National Co. is getting more calls about buying land and that the phone started ringing more as 2020 wound down. Dickhut is senior vice president of real estate operations at FNC. From his perspective, different...

As expected, 2021 aggregate farm financials are going to look wildly different from 2020 in the pandemic era. USDA’s Economic Research Service released updated 2020 farm income forecasts and new 2021 income and financial projections earlier today. Projected 2021 net farm income will likely decline 8% from a year ago to $111.4 billion as reduced government aid programs send 2021 earnings estimates lower. USDA forecasts 2021 farm assistance payments at $25.3 billion – a 45% decline from 2020 aid levels and nearly 23% of 2021 net farm income.  “The largest contributor to lower net income ...

The Daily Yonder Book Review: ‘Rural Rebellion – How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold’ Ross Benes’ political memoir lays out the failure of Democrats to reach rural constituents in Nebraska. Reviewer Matt L. Barron offers some solutions, along with his reflections on Benes’ “wonderful new book.” Share this: When I say Nebraska, you say what? Cornhusker football? The wonderful writing of Willa Cather? The Sandhills? How about a ruby-red state about as inhospitable for Democrats as Mars is for humans? The chapter on Nebraska from my Almanac of American Politics 1...

Speculation is brewing over how the new Biden administration may use the Commodity Credit Corporation. The CCC was used by the Trump-era USDA to provide trad

Incoming Senate Ag Committee chairwoman wants to move quick on USDA nominations, farmer-focused climate bill and child nutrition.