Spring has sprung. The grass is growing again — but so are expenses on the farm.

The number of small farms in New York state is shrinking, especially dairy farms. New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that half of New York’s dairy farms from a decade ago no longer ...

U.S. agriculture is on the brink of a financial shakeout that will be the worse since the farm crisis of the 1980s. This is largely ignored, even by many farmers, but the monster won’t stay under the ...