Kai Risdahl

So look, you are, as I said in the introduction, you're the contributing writer, but also you're a PhD student in history.

So apply your analytical history lens here and tell me where this goes now.

Stepan Shveshnikov, he's a contributing writer at Off Range.

Also, as I said, he studies history on the side.

Stepan, thanks a lot.

I appreciate your time.

Thank you.

This is a consequential time in the U.S.

agriculture economy.

Farmers have most of their crops in the ground and they're checking on corn and beans and whatnot that are just starting to grow.

Ranchers are turning their cattle out to summer pastures.

And just like for other small businesses and for consumers, too, the financial pressures on them are real.

Everything from higher fuel and fertilizer costs because of the war to tariffs and also to drought.

Marketplace's Caitlin Tan checked in on the state of the farm and ranch economy and found

Spoiler alert, it's not great.

Well, that's good.

First, though, let's do the numbers.

Dow Industrials up 182 today, 4 tenths percent, finished at 50,644.

The Nasdaq added 18 points, a tenth percent, closed at 26,674.

S&P 500 basically flat 75 and 20.