Arkansas farmer bankruptcies way up?

Our farmers have been complaining about losses 3x higher than anyone else. I'm starting to think we're just not very good at the business aspect of it.

I am one of the retails they're buying from. You're not teaching me anything.

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Lower your price to reflect the commodity price.

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Your business plan is to convince someone else to lower their prices for no reason?

Competition will do that. You can't sell anything without perceived value anymore.

Not just AR. The entire Delta is rough right now for row croppers (corn, soy, cotton) especially. Went to a meeting hosted by the Dept of Ag a few weeks back. Main takeaways:

1. Commodity crises have cratered due to 3 factors:
- Reduced demand for our products due to the trade war with China.
- Some of our competitors, namely Brazil, have stepped up production and were well positioned to fill the void when the trade war started.
- 2025 had a record harvest for corn. Just bad luck on that one.

2. At the same time, input prices for fertilizer, potash, and other amendments have inflated due to tariffs. This is killing margins. At the meeting I attended, it was shared that farmers in the Delta are losing an average of $300/are on soybeans. It's going to be awful.

3. Outside of Brazil, we're also seeing more competition from Mexico and other LATAM countries.


Saying farmers are all of the sudden "not good at business" is a stupid take. (Someone commented this above.)

A bunch of external factors are ruining people and many of the smaller family farms that will fold will be gobbled up by international operations that don't give two shits about our country.

Personally, I'd rather have American families growing my food than foreign interests.

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Delta are losing an average of $300/are on soybeans

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If someone is doing this then they suck at farming soybeans

The avg yield in the delta is over 60 bushels per acre. At $10 beans there input cost would be $900/ac of soybeans which is almost not possible

Rice and Cotton - yea you might be losing $300/ac

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Rice and Cotton - yea you might be losing $300/ac

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My bad, you are correct. He said cotton was losing $300/acre. Beans losing money, too, but not that bad.

That’s good info. Thanks.

I don’t the the admin calculated the impact of the trade wars/tariffs strategy all that well… and I hope they can correct this so farmers don’t need bailouts.

Farmers don’t want bailouts, if can be avoided. They want their business model to be profitable.