Tennessee farmer Franklin Carmack is haunted by concerns that he could lose the family farm.

Carmack, a fifth-generation farmer, has been forced to take on work outside his fields — selling T-shirts, driving trucks and repairing boats — to try and ease his financial burden. It's affected his health, Carmack said, and he now takes four blood pressure pills a day. He thinks about the issue when he goes to bed at night.

"What's gonna be left in a year, two years? Am I the one that broke what started in the late 1800s?" Carmack said he wonders.

He's not alone: America's farmers are facing high costs, low prices and challenges from tariffs. Major row crops, including corn, soybeans , cotton and wheat, have not been profitable since at least 2022, according to United States Department o

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