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The Idaho Cattle Association’s annual Convention and Trade Show was scheduled for the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa Monday and Tuesday. But because of the recent increase in COVID-19 cases across the state, the in-person event has been canceled. How ...

Last month, American Farmland Trust launched a new initiative the organization said will transform agriculture. The Farming is Our Future effort looks to reduce the rate of farmland loss by 5%, decrease carbon emissions by 650 million metric tons annually and increase the number of beginning farmers to the highest level reported in 50 years ...

The Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index remained above growth-neutral in December.  It’s the fourth-straight month, and tenth time in the past 12 months in the Index moved higher.  The index is a monthly survey of bank CEOs in rural areas of a 10-state region that depends on agriculture and/or energy.   While ...

The Midwest and the Mid-South parts of the country saw farm income decline in the fourth quarter of 2018.  In spite of the pressure on farm incomes, the value of quality farmland, ranchland, and pastureland rose.   Those observations come from the latest Agricultural Finance Monitor, which is published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.  Lende...

Rural bankers expect farmland prices will continue to decline.  In the latest Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index, Midwest lenders on average estimated that farmland prices declined by 4.0% over the past 12 months and expect farmland prices to fall by another 3.2% over t...

Farm income declined in the first quarter of 2018, the 17th-consecutive quarter of lower income numbers.  The latest Agricultural Finance Monitor, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, shows quality farmland values and cash rents were also slightly lower than in 2017.  The St....