Ryan Hanrahan

1 day ago | m.farms.com | Ryan Hanrahan

By Ryan Hanrahan Bloomberg Law’s Alex Wolf and Skye Witley reported that “family farm bankruptcies increased by 55% last year compared to 2023 and are trending even higher this year as farmers continue to grapple with depressed agricultural commodity prices and high input costs.” “And while much of the industrywide distress predates his second stint in the White House, (President Donald) Trump has quickly nudged more farmers closer to the brink of going under and created turbulence for...

1 week ago | buffalobulletin.com | Ryan Hanrahan

The Buffalo High School boys soccer team dominated this past weekend, beating Douglas 4-0 at home on Friday and Rawlins 8-0 on the road on Saturday. The combined output of 12 goals in one weekend was one of the Bison’s best offensive displays in recent memory, and the game against Rawlins was Buffalo’s highest-scoring single game since 2020.

1 week ago | farmtalknews.com | Ryan Hanrahan

Fortune’s Stuart Dyos reported on Sunday that “Trump administration officials and lawmakers have begun exploring a relief package for U.S. farmers as agricultural trade groups warn of economic repercussions from tariffs.” “‘We are setting up the infrastructure that if, in fact, we have some economic consequences in the short term to our farmers and perhaps our ranchers, that we will have programs in place to solve for that,’ Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters last week,”...

1 week ago | farmtalknews.com | Ryan Hanrahan

Bloomberg’s Michael Hirtzer reported Monday that “US farmers are boosting corn planting to a five-year high as the looming trade war makes America’s mostly widely grown crop a relatively safe bet even as demand is at risk of being shaken up by reciprocal tariffs.” “Farmers are expected to plant 95.3 million acres of corn this spring, up 5% from a year ago and more than the 94.4 million predicted in a Bloomberg survey, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s annual prospective planting...

1 week ago | onthefarmradio.com | Ryan Hanrahan

Source: University of Illinois' FarmDoc project By Ryan Hanrahan Bloomberg's Skylar Woodhouse reported that "President Donald Trump said he is looking to allow undocumented farm and hospitality industry workers to leave the US for a short period of time and reenter the country legally, a bid to address concerns about labor shortages from his crackdown on undocumented migration." "'We're going to work with people so that if they go out in a nice way, go back to their country, we're going to...