President Donald Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that American cattle ranchers "have to get their prices down," and that the tariffs he's enacted are "the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades." "The Cattle Ranchers ...

Discover how Shorthorn cattle became the backbone of early American farms by providing milk, beef, and draft power during westward expansion.

Mariah Squire is a Digital News Senior Editor for Successful Farming and Agriculture.com. Before joining Successful Farming full-time in 2024, she was a contributor covering the weekly USDA Crop Progress report. After obtaining her PhD in microbiology in ...

Prices of corn, soybeans, and other grains and oilseeds are significantly lower than their near-record levels between late 2021 and mid-2024, generating lower revenues from the market for crop producers raising those commodities. 1 Behind the low current ...

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