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Health insurance costs soar for US farmers
Health insurance costs soar for US farmers
Health insurance costs soar for US farmers

Published on: 01/26/2026

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Prairie Star Farm has been in Meghan Palmer's family for three generations. She hopes that someday one of her kids will want to take over operations, but it's getting harder for a farm to be profitable.

(TNS) - Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like fertilizer and seeds, as well as the Trump tariffs and the dismantling of USAID, many farms weren’t profitable last year.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2026/01/health-insurance-costs-soar-for-us-farmers.html

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