Chris Hoffman is president of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. He is a first-generation hog and chicken farmer.
The recent U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities had an immediate impact on the domestic economy, including costs associated with agricultural fertilizer.
Questions and concerns about foreign countries owning U.S. land did not start recently nor will they end anytime soon.
The United States has the ability to produce nearly everything on grocery store shelves. That’s pretty remarkable.
Government, of course, has dozens of ways to indirectly impact ag markets.
If you’re in charge of reversing American agriculture’s three-years-old-and-growing trade deficit, your list of options is as limited as it is unworkable.
Farmers truly share a bond, no matter where we live or what we grow and raise.
Beneath the red, white and blue fanfare lays a story that’s just as rooted in the soil as it is in our history books — because when America declared independence, it was farmers who helped make that freedom possible.
American farmers take the responsibility of providing a safe food supply to heart because we know that food security means national security.