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Fall is prime time for apple picking

by Anais Amin
Sep 22, 2022
“We'd like to think that we're responsible for high demand but it's really the weather," says Al Rose of Red Apple Farm.
Nancy and Al Rose of Red Apple Farms in Massachusetts. "COVID made us stronger," Al Rose says.
Courtesy Rose
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Strong dollar is squeezing profits from this Washington farmer's exports

by Kai Ryssdal and Anais Amin
Jul 21, 2022
Patrick Smith, CEO of Loftus Ranches, is fighting inflation as well. Some fertilizer materials have nearly doubled in a year or two, he says.
"Beer is still good business," says Patrick Smith, CEO of Loftus Ranches in Yakima, Washington. Above, fresh hops from a California farm.
Katherine Garrova/Marketplace
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Farmers in the Midwest are behind on planting. That could mean lower yields come harvest.

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
May 19, 2022
Iowa corn and soybean farmer April Hemmes is "at least two and a half weeks" behind due to wet weather.
"That's farming, buddy!" says April Hemmes, a corn and soybean farmer, in the face of drought in her home state of Iowa.
Ben Hethcoat/Marketplace
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Farmers are struggling in the pandemic economy

by Peggy Lowe
Jul 20, 2020
A study finds emergency government money will make up more than a third of farm income.
Dairy cows in a field at Grazing Plains Farm near Newton in central Kansas.
Courtesy of Jason Schmidt
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Farmers are "excited" by the prospect re-entering the TPP

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 13, 2018
Keith Alverson says farmers like him are after the 95 precent of consumers outside the U.S.
The photographer holds an ear of corn he found on the ground next to a corn field during harvest on September 13, 2012 near Teltow, Germany. 
Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Food prices are insanely cheap right now

by Adam Allington
Sep 28, 2016
Grocery prices are on track for the longest stretch of falling prices in 50 years.
A Wal-Mart employee stocks the produce shelves at a store in Miami, Florida.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Farm families in the west under pressure to sell their water

by Marketplace Contributor
Sep 1, 2016
Farm water rights increasingly going to sustain condos and suburban lawns.
Auctioneer Spanky Assiter calls bids for land and water rights at a real estate auction in Loveland, Colorado. 
Luke Runyon/KUNC and Harvest Public Media
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Brexit effects could show up in US farm economy

by Annie Baxter
Jun 30, 2016
The UK's exit could remove an important US agriculture ally.
 Storm clouds pass over a soybean field near Salem, South Dakota
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Agriculture downturn ripples through farm towns

by Annie Baxter
Dec 22, 2015
Crop prices are down, affecting farmers, equipment dealers and lenders.
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