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Lawmakers also continued funding for a farmer suicide prevention hotline.

Farmers continued to take on more debt through the first quarter of 2025, prolonging a trend from last year. That's as farm incomes have shrunk over the last couple of years, and some worry President Trump's tariffs could make economic conditions tougher.

Farmers are failing to pay their loans at the highest rate in nearly a decade, Forbes reports. The loan delinquencies appear to be due to declining crop…