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Farmers say policy shifts are the biggest concern for 2025
An ag economist says farmers are worried about the potential ag policy shifts heading into 2025.
Jim Mintert with Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture says they surveyed farmers in latest Ag Economy Barometer about three weeks ahead of the election.
“People were very concerned about politics and policy,” he says. “Those are the top 2 concerns that they expressed in that open-ended question along with concerns about inputs, prices, the regulatory environment.”
He tells Brownfield despite this, farmers are overall optimistic.
“Producers were telling us that they thought the downturn we experienced 2024 was transitory and that we would see significantly better times in 2025,” he says.
The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer is a nationwide measure of the health of the U.S. agricultural economy and surveys 400 agricultural producers on economic sentiment each month.
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