#crop-prices

#crop-prices

Crop prices correlate with an 11-year solar period, and a meteor detonates over Ireland, in this week's pick from the Nature archive. 100 years ago doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03455-0 This article features text from Nature's archive. By its historical nature, the archive includes some images, articles and language that by twenty-first-century standards are offensive and harmful. Find out more.

The number of farm operations filing for bankruptcy remains at historically low levels but has jumped sharply this year as a crisis in the agricultural economy drags on. In the second quarter, there were 93 filings, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, up from 88 in the first quarter and nearly double the 47 at the end of 2024.