Impacts of the New Reconciliation Budget for Farmers

Sep 05, 2025

By Garen Paulson

Farmers have a lot to unpack with the sweeping tax and spending package passed by Congress in July.

For agriculture, this bill could mean increased financial flexibility, improved insurance options, enhanced safety nets, and new markets for your crops. However, it also comes with political baggage and trade-offs that could impact rural communities.

Here are our first impressions.

Tax provisions affecting farmers

These changes are designed to enhance cash flow, facilitate smooth generational transitions, and simplify planning

Source : umn.edu

Video: Screening Nursery Ingredients - Kynna Crawford

In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Kynna Crawford, Graduate Research Assistant at South Dakota State University, discusses how Plackett-Burman designs can help screen nursery diet ingredients for early post-weaning feed intake. She explains why low intake after weaning contributes to stress and mortality, how screening trials can evaluate multiple ingredients in a single study, and how the approach can support both research and commercial nursery nutrition decisions. Listen now on all major platforms!

Click here to read the full research article: https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/...

"A single screening trial can help identify which nursery ingredients deserve deeper research for early post-weaning feed intake."

Meet the guest: Kynna Crawford / kynna-crawford-a2610a3aa is a Master's student in Animal Sciences at South Dakota State University, where her work focuses on swine nutrition and nursery pig management. Her research examines strategies to alleviate weaning stress, including dietary approaches and screening tools to identify ingredients that may promote early feed intake. Learn more from Kynna Crawford on The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, available on all major platforms.