Ag economy

If you’ve been blessed with starting a family in recent years, a fair warning that it’s going to cost you. That's apparent from USDA's latest “Cost of Raising a Child” report, which estimates that for a child born in 2015, a middle-income married couple will spend $233,610 (in 2015 dollars) on child-rearing expenses until the child turns 18...

The Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is starting work on two surveys this fall on vegetable’s and farm management resources. For both the Vegetable Chemical Use Survey and the Agricultural Resource Management Survey NASS will collect the data through in-person interviews...