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Southern Ag Today Articles

Southern Ag Today provides daily peer-reviewed articles focused on issues impacting Southern ag

September 8, 2025 - Tracking Chapter 12 Bankruptcies in the South: 2015 – 2025 Trends and Identifyin

Southern Ag Today provides daily peer-reviewed articles focused on issues impacting Southern ag

 Southern Ag Today publishes daily peer-reviewed articles on Southern agriculture, produced by 13 universities with Texas A&M and Arkansas leadership. Featured here are Erica Barnes Fields’ published articles. 

October 3, 2025- Farm Financial Stress and Suicide Risk: Red Flags Every Community Should Know

September 8, 2025 - Tracking Chapter 12 Bankruptcies in the South: 2015 – 2025 Trends and Identifyin

Southern Ag Today provides daily peer-reviewed articles focused on issues impacting Southern ag

 


Published Article

September 8, 2025 - Tracking Chapter 12 Bankruptcies in the South: 2015 – 2025 Trends and Identifyin

September 8, 2025 - Tracking Chapter 12 Bankruptcies in the South: 2015 – 2025 Trends and Identifyin

September 8, 2025 - Tracking Chapter 12 Bankruptcies in the South: 2015 – 2025 Trends and Identifyin

 


Published Article

Morning Coffee and Ag Markets Podcast Episode

 September 29, 2025 

 Tune in to the Fryar Center’s Morning Coffee and Ag Markets Podcast, featuring Ryan Loy and Erica Barnes Fields on rate cuts, farm stress, and red-flag warning signs.   The podcast link is below.  

Morning Coffee and Ag Markets Podcast Episode 63 (mp3)

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Identifying Financial Stress in Agriculture: A Guide for Families, Friends, and Community Stakeholders

A Guide for Families, Friends, and Ag Community Stakeholders

Farmers are more than pro­ducers; they are caretakers of generational land, providers for their families, pillars of their com­munities, and routinely deeply grounded in faith. For them, farming is more than an occupation - it's a calling, an identity, and a generational legacy. When financial stress becomes overwhelming, it threatens far more than the farm - it can drain hope, strain relation­ships, cloud a sense of purpose and shatter emotional well-being.

Identificando el Estrés Financiero en AgricultoresyGanaderos

Una Guía para Familias y Miembros de la Comunidad Agrícola

Los agricultores son más que productores; son cuidadores de tierras

generacionales, proveedores para sus familias, pilares de sus comunidades y, en muchas ocasiones están profundamente arraigados a la fe. Para ellos, la agricultura es más que una ocupación: es una vocación, es su identidad y un legado generacional. Cuando el estrés financiero se vuelve abrumador, puede amenazar más que a la estabilidad de la granja: puede hacer perder la esperanza, crear tensión en las relaciones personales, nublar el sentido de propósito y destrozar el bienestar emocional.

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Presented at ERME National Conference in 2020

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