Staunch the Bleeding

Prairie Routes is rolling out new programs to help keep family farms in business, during what look to be a rough few years ahead.

2024 was already a hard year for status quo commodity grain farm businesses, and things aren’t looking any better right now. With fertilizer markets up and grain prices just holding, how much equity might farms already be bleeding?

In the past, strong grain markets helped keep farms profitable in spite of rising crop input expenses. Going forward, the ec…