Current conditions are sending ripples through the ag economy.
MSN found when harvest is complete this year, nearly 150,000 farms will close. Looking back to the 1950s, more than 60 percent of all U.S. farms have stopped producing, with the number of acres dropping by more than 320 million.
Leaders at American Farmers and Ranchers say everytime the ag economy hits one of these cycles, more family farms begin to disappear.
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“It’s a falsehood to call beef from another country ‘Product of the USA.’”
“When you’re a small family farm, security is often an afterthought, if a thought at all.”
“I don’t think we’re going to see cattle coming across the border at all because of that increase in their cases in Mexico.”
