Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farm workers load beans into a grain truck Sept. 28, 2025, in Wells County, N.D. (Photo by Lora Wobbema/For the North Dakota ...

As farmers prepare for the 2025 harvest season, the use of marketing assistance loans has taken on more significance as an option in setting up post-harvest grain marketing plans for corn and soybeans ...

For a quarter century, family-owned agricultural operations have received low-interest financing through USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) Farm Storage Facility Loan Program (FSFL) to enhance their ...

North Dakota officials increased the Farm Financial Stability Loan Program to $500 million as farmers face higher costs and operating shortfalls in 2024 and 2025. Farmers can apply for the expanded ...

The North Dakota Grain Growers Association is urging federal policymakers to change the rules of a loan program that helps ...

USDA paused new REAP grant awards earlier this year so it could implement new regulations under an executive order tasking ...

The Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corp. approved more than $2.4 million in loans to support farm operations and agribusiness projects across the state, according to a news release.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has resumed normal operations while the farm bill was extended for a third year after the president signed a funding package that reopened the government. The ...

USDA rolls out disaster programs including livestock indemnity payments, emergency loans and conservation help for affected producers.

Commodity Credit Corporation commodity loans on harvested corn, soybeans and wheat were regularly used by farm operators in the 1990s and early 2000s, as well as from 2015 to 2019, as a grain ...