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We summarized KS farm revenue and income impacts from 2025 Relief Act. LinkedIn connections can get the full breakdown by state by viwing the full Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center (RaFF) report.

Kansas crop producers are projected to receive at least $782 million in economic assistance as a result of the U.S. Congress including $10 billion in farm economic aid within the American Relief Act, 2025, which passed last week.    Here's a breakdown of the act and its implications for Kansas, based on data published by the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center (RaFF).    1. Two-thirds of the state's total estimated economic assistance payments stem from two commodities: corn (34%) and wheat (33%). By commodity, the economic assistance provided depends on the number of eligible acres (i.e., those planted in 2024 plus 50% of 2024 prevented planted acres) and estimated economic assistance, which is the higher of 1) 26% of the economic loss for an eligible crop (i.e., difference between expected gross returns and expected costs per acre) or 2) 8% of the product of national PLC payment yield and commodity statutory reference price. This year, both corn and wheat had depressed prices, which pressured returns.    2. Economic assistance projected for Kansas sorghum producers represented 14% of the total estimated for Kansas. However, an estimated 45% of the country's sorghum economic assistance payments stemmed from Kansas sorghum. An estimated 17% of the country's projected wheat economic assistance will be directed to Kansas producers.    3. Kansas producers who had soybean, oats, cotton, barley and sunflower acreage in 2024 will also receive economic assistance.    4. Per producer or legal farm entity, payments will have a cap, which will vary depending on reliance on farm income — $125,000 if farming, ranching or silviculture provided less than 75% of average gross income in 2020, 2021 and 2022 or $250,000 for all other cases.    5. In October, RaFF released the fall 2024 farm income outlook for Kansas. It anticipated $729 million in direct government payments for the year. Economic assistance provided through the American Relief Act, 2025, will more than double this original estimate of direct government payments and lift statewide net farm income by 17% — driving home the significance of this recent legislation. Even after accounting for the economic assistance, 2024 estimated net farm income will total some $459 million less than 2023 state net farm income.   6. In addition to allocating economic aid to farms, the American Relief Act, 2025, extended the 2018 farm bill until September 2025. It also approved natural disaster aid, including aid for agricultural producers, and funded the federal government through March 14, 2025.    Read more about the American Relief Act's farm economic assistance at https://lnkd.in/gPAaKXNU.    Thanks to Alejandro Plastina, Marc Rosenbohm and Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center (RaFF) for quickly turning around the economic assistance projections by county and state.

The 3.5% forecast year-over-year drop in net cash farm income published last week by the USDA Economic Research Service confirmed weakening financial performance for the U.S. farm sector. This national aggregate, however, doesn't expose the double-digit percentage declines in net cash income projected for some areas. This spells challenges not only for farms but also the agribusinesses, and supporting industries, that populate rural communities to serve the needs of farm businesses. According to the December farm income forecast from ERS, operations in three of the nine ERS farm resource regions will average at least a 10% inflation-adjusted reduction in net cash income between 2023 and 2024:  🔸 Mississippi Portal, 21% decline 🔸 Heartland, 20% decline 🔸 Northern Great Plains, 11% decline The two regions with the most pronounced net cash income reductions — Mississippi Portal and Heartland — commonly produce commodities (e.g., corn, soybeans) that recently have experienced challenging economics. Earlier this week, Jennifer Ifft detailed the trend in net cash income by commodity specialization: https://lnkd.in/dxNbhbwp. Other regions are benefiting from the offsetting of low crop returns with higher livestock returns. Although the rural economies of these other areas are better off, the row crop farmers in these areas are likely feeling financial stress. Net cash income declining so notably for the Heartland region isn't isolated to the 2023-to-2024 comparison period. Relative to the previous five-, 10- and 14-year averages, 2024 net cash income was low — for example, just 74% of the 14-year average. For the Mississippi Portal region, 2024 net cash income was 80% of the 14-year average. In the Heartland, a financially stressed farm economy prompts worries for U.S. agriculture more broadly. These three reasons point to why: 1️⃣ Of the 1.89 million farms in the U.S., 21% operate in the Heartland, according to the 2022 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Sustaining these farms means supporting jobs, businesses and families, particularly throughout the country's mid-section. 2️⃣ Nearly 16% of the country's acreage used for agricultural production fits within the Heartland, based on the 2022 ARMS data. This highly productive farmland yields a sizable share of U.S. agricultural output. 3️⃣The Heartland generates $131.2 billion in agricultural production — close to 29% of the national total, given the 2022 ARMS data. The area-by-area variation in farm financial conditions supports the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center (RaFF) Policy Analysis Center's purpose to study issues affecting farm and rural finances by state and region.

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Who doesn't love hearing that their region is leading the way in something? Certainly not me! But when that top spot is attributed to experiencing the highest rise in farm operation #expenditures, it's worth taking a closer look. In 2023, the #Midwest felt the impact the most with a significant 12.4% increase in #farm operation spending. To gain an understanding of the primary reasons behind these costs, I recommend reading the article on the USDA's new report. #MarshMMA

Who doesn't love hearing that their region is leading the way in something? Certainly not me! But when that top spot is attributed to experiencing the highest rise in farm operation #expenditures, it's worth taking a closer look. In 2023, the #Midwest felt the impact the most with a significant 12.4% increase in #farm operation spending. To gain an understanding of the primary reasons behind these costs, I recommend reading the article on the USDA's new report. #MarshMMA

This is really sad news for FARMERS all over the USA. Which is why the USDA should expedite the REAP grants to get SOLAR on all US Farms. Time for the USDA to allocate much more funds into the USDA REAP program. THIS is why FARMERS need SOLAR! #SOLAR #BESS #USfarmers Why the USDA expects farm income to plummet in 2024 published on 2.12.2024 Projections from the U.S. Department of Agriculture say net farm income is expected to decrease $43.1 billion in 2024 compared with 2023 – the largest year-to-year drop in history. “It aligns with what we have been seeing because commodity prices have been dropping and expenses have been going up,” said Steve Ammerman, a spokesperson for the New York Farm Bureau. Some of the factors the USDA attributes to the decrease — an average of $72,000 for every farm in the U.S.— include lower commodity prices, lower direct government payments and higher production expenses.  The report says commodity prices, the amount farmers are paid for their products, are expected to decrease by $21.2 billion from 2023 to 2024. Both crop and animal product sales are expected to decrease for corn, soybeans, eggs, turkeys, cattle and milk. “The good news is fuel prices have dropped somewhat. Fuel and energy are big expenses for farms so anytime we can get those lower fuel prices, that definitely helps the bottom line,” Ammerman said. Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, is pushing Congress to focus on bringing costs down for farmers and passing a new farm bill.  ..

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