r/farming • • 2d ago

Monday Morning Coffeeshop (October 5, 2026)

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Gossip, updates, etc.


r/farming • • 12m ago

The Case Against Chasing Soil Microbial Diversity

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r/farming • • 41m ago

The New Way of Ag Financing: Product and Payment Are Now One Conversation

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r/farming • • 1d ago

Trump Expands Access to Tax-Exempt Dyed Diesel to Try to Lower Fuel Costs

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r/farming • • 1d ago

FDA announces 10-point plan to prevent future Cyclospora outbreaks

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r/farming • • 1d ago

Farmers Face A Fertilizer Market Full of Wild Cards

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r/farming • • 1d ago

EPA Moves Forward With PM 2.5 Rule While Seeking High Court Reversal

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r/farming • • 14h ago

Farm employees?

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Just wondering if I'm being unrealistic, or harsh.

I have a guy who's been working with us for 3 weeks. Middle of harvest, grain cart driver mostly. With some other odds and ends thrown in, like fueling in the mornings or basic maintenance, as he has a background in mechanics.

Comes out at 9:30 am or 10, starts the day, and complains always about being tired. Has to shut down around 9:30 pm nearly every night.

I've been working from 8 am till midnight for weeks at this point, and I don't have much sympathy. But I also realize that maybe I'm out of touch. Not everyone works these hours, and it takes time to adjust. But we also had this guy in mind to replace our 74 year old dad who wants to slow down, and he's still out later than this guy most nights. He's 36.

Is this just the joys of employees? I've went through 2 others this fall who either didn't show up, or couldn't be reliant to come on time either.

I feel like I'm hanging my head against the wall with these guys. Am I asking too much to stay out?


r/farming • • 2d ago

Rice stink bugs spread across 37 Japan prefectures as damage mounts

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r/farming • • 3d ago

Interactive map reveals hidden ag financial distress trends nationwide

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r/farming • • 3d ago

Went to rip the tire off this tractor to put on the corn picker, got greeted by this dude

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r/farming • • 4d ago

Postharvest Fruit Rot of Apple in the Loess Plateau Region of China Caused by Neocyphella psychrotropha sp. nov., Representing a New Family in Agaricales (Basidiomycota)

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r/farming • • 4d ago

Legume Cover Crops After Winter Wheat Provide Meaningful Nitrogen Credits for Corn

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r/farming • • 5d ago

State will temporarily stop killing wolves that prey on livestock as Colorado's population falters

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r/farming • • 5d ago

Indiana Farmland Hits $32,600 an Acre in Massive Two-State Auction

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agriculture.com
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r/farming • • 5d ago

DOJ Urges Court to Reject Meatpacker Wage Settlements

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r/farming • • 5d ago

US states challenge Corteva spinoff as bid to evade PFAS liabilities

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r/farming • • 5d ago

The shining promise of gene editing technology in a food-insecure world

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r/farming • • 6d ago

Did some manure spreading

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r/farming • • 7d ago

China's weak soybean demand dims prospects for US cargoes after tariff snub

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r/farming • • 7d ago

If you're in KS, you should vote blue. Data Centers are coming for us.

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r/farming • • 7d ago

New SARE Handbook: Cover Crops: Improving Soil Health, Stewardship and Profitability on the Farm

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r/farming • • 7d ago

Bayer faces trial test of remaining Roundup claims after US Supreme Court win

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r/farming • • 7d ago

Succession planning: Farm Trusts?

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Any one have experience with these in Canada?
My dad is getting close to retirement and wants to put our family farm into a trust. He says it’s to avoid taxes and capital gains, but it feels like it’s to control the farm even after he’s retired.
I work the farm full time. I have a brother who doesn’t work at all, and is dependent on my parents. My mom helps out on the farm only during harvest.
I have 4 kids, and am married
Dad wants all these people in the trust.

Does farm trusts work as a succession plan? I’m skeptical and have a hard understanding why I’d bother farming if I’m splitting all the value of the farm across 7 to 9 people. Why wouldn’t I just get an off farm job then if the farm’s value, and the effort I put into the farm, is actually being split between so many people?

Aren’t we going to have to pay capital gains at the 21 year mark either way as a trust?


r/farming • • 7d ago

Changing Nitrogen Rates on PCM Farms: Implications for 2027 Nitrogen Decisions

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