Report: Farm bankruptcies rose 24% over past year, growers increasingly depend on federal aid, programs
The Rural Blog “U.S. farm bankruptcies in September surged 24 percent to the highest since 2011 amid strains from President Donald Trump’s trade war with China and a year of wild weather,” Mike Dorning reports for Bloomberg. “Growers are also becoming increasingly dependent on trade aid and other federal programs for income, figures showed in a report by the American Farm…