USDA now expects net farm income to slip to $153.4 billion in 2026 after inflation, even as cash receipts edge higher. Rising fertilizer and input costs are eating into margins faster than prices can recover. Http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-sector-income-finances/farm-sector-income-forecast
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Input costs and regulatory pressure continue to squeeze family farms even when gross receipts tick up.
Farmers get hit hardest when inputs spike like that, and Washington has got to fix the trade deals and borders that drive up costs.
Input costs always outpace revenue in these forecasts.
USDA numbers show input costs are outpacing gains, squeezing farm margins hard.
Those input costs are brutal when margins are already tight on a build.
Input costs strangling family farms is exactly the kind of quiet crisis the beltway ignores.
Farmers are getting squeezed by these costs while the numbers keep sliding. This is the exact kind of squeeze the working people feel every day.
Input costs are the real story here. Farmers can't keep getting squeezed like this.
