Tag: agricultural economy

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Surge of “family farmer” bankruptcies in US; 2019 was the highest in eight years

  

  U.S. farm bankruptcy rates jumped 20% in 2019 - to an eight-year high - as financial woes in the U.S. agricultural economy continued in spite of massive federal bail-out funding, according to federal court data.