Farm Aid 2026
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. More help is on the way for farmers in 2026, on top of aid already announced.
Farmers will see long-awaited relief from the estate tax next year, with the exemption rising to $15 million for individuals, and $30 million for married couples under the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill …
TRUMP … “You love your children, and your children are great, and they want to be farmers, and you leave the farm to your children, and a lot of farms are sort of cash poor, land rich, cash poor.”
Which Trump says didn’t help when it came time to pay the estate tax …
TRUMP … “The kids would go to the local bank or to any bank, and they’d borrow money to pay the estate tax, and they’d end up losing the farm. They’d go bankrupt. And, because they love their farm and they love their business, and they love their way of life, they’d end up committing suicide—a lot of suicides.”
Separately, USDA just launched a 700-million-dollar regenerative Ag voluntary pilot program to boost soil and food health.
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins …
ROLLINS … “The pilot program brings USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, or NRCS, back to its core mission—helping people help the land through whole farm, outcome-based, voluntary conservation that our producers trust.”
Rollins says the key is “whole farm planning” to improve soil and water health at the same time, using existing programs.
