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American farmers are set see higher incomes again this year as the trade truce helps markets recover and improve exports at a time when China needs more meat.

Climate-friendly crops are getting more attention from farmers and food companies as pressure mounts to find sustainable forms of agriculture.

Fast-food titans, embroiled in a chicken-sandwich battle, are trying to beat each other with small weapons.

Donald Trump is boasting that he’s made farmers “really happy.” He’s not wrong, but it’s not just the trade deal that’s left farmers optimistic for 2020.

President Donald Trump is poised to sign a deal with China on Wednesday that leaves significant tariffs in place

Existing tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese goods coming into the U.S. are likely to stay in place until after the American presidential election.

After spells of record rain delayed planting and harvesting, at least one international customer is now complaining about the poor quality of U.S. corn.

Borden Dairy Co. filed for bankruptcy, becoming the second major U.S. milk seller to do so in two months as competitive pressures, declining consumption and falling profits made its debt load unsustainable.

The European Union’s new trade chief plans to visit Washington on Jan. 14-16 in a bid to repair transatlantic relations.

he White House’s leading China hawk, trade adviser Peter Navarro, said Monday that a preliminary trade deal with Beijing is completed.

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. eased Mexico’s concern that it would send so-called labor attaches to monitor enforcement of USMCA trade-deal rules.

otato processors are rushing to buy supplies and ship them across North America in order to keep French fries on the menu after cold, wet weather damaged crops in key producers in the U.S. and Canada.

Top negotiators from China and the U.S. talked again this weekend, after signs of concessions from both sides on some of the outstanding issues.

China lifted its four-year-old ban on U.S. poultry shipments, a small sign of trade-deal progress at a time when agriculture purchases have become a sticking point in negotiations.

The winter-grain planting period is drawing to a close across the Northern Hemisphere, and young crops across some of the world’s top exporters face a mixed bag of conditions.

China aims to buy at least $20 billion of agricultural products in a year if it signs a partial trade deal with the U.S.

Chicago soybean futures were buoyed by the news and hit the highest level in a week on Tuesday.

U.S. rice growers won’t get increased sales under the current terms of a trade deal agreed by President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, people familiar with the accord said.

The trade war between the U.S. and China continues to surprise agricultural markets, even delivering an unexpected reprieve for American farmers who have otherwise been roiled by the conflict.

Conditions for the cotton crop in the U.S., the world’s biggest exporter, are deteriorating as dry weather erodes planting prospects in Texas, the top state grower.

A key deadline is set to lapse Monday that could lead to permanent U.S. tariffs on Mexican tomato imports, with costs potentially hitting American consumers when the weather turns cold later this year.

Add the nation’s wheat farmers to the list of groups President Donald Trump has offended.

American farmers already stung by President Donald Trump’s trade wars now face billions of dollars in potential losses as controversial data from the U.S. government snuffs out a rally in corn.

When you visit a meat plant, humans are completing tasks like stacking pallets and packing chicken drumsticks. But Tyson Foods Inc. thinks robots can do it all.

Farmers’ discontent over President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China erupted into the open Wednesday as his agriculture secretary was confronted at a fair in rural Minnesota.

The Chinese government has asked its state-owned enterprises to suspend imports of U.S. agricultural products.

Grain-market watchers lashed out at USDA after the agency on Wednesday tweeted that farmers planted 91.7 million acres of corn this year, citing data that many traders believe is inaccurate.

The Trump administration proposed new immigration rules Monday for temporary agricultural workers that officials said would make it easier for employers to apply for the visas.

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that chicken processors, including Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. and Sanderson Farms Inc., conspired to fix prices.

Record rain has flooded Midwest streets and snarled Mississippi River traffic, crucial to delivering inputs that farmers need and a major artery in helping them ship products.

Record rain has flooded Midwest streets and snarled Mississippi River traffic, crucial to delivering inputs that farmers need and a major artery in helping them ship products.

Cotton acres at risk amid adverse weather as well as corn gain and cotton crop uncertainty may spur more price volatility.

Thad Cochran, a seven-term Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi who was one of the longest-serving members in Congress when he retired in 2018, has died. He was 81.

President Donald Trump is considering visiting an ethanol refinery in Iowa in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. is poised to lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico in favor of stronger enforcement actions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Soybean futures fell to the lowest level in a decade as an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China dims hopes that the Asian nation will resume purchases of American beans to ease supply gluts.

Banks that serve U.S. farmers are increasingly restructuring existing loans and boosting the collateral needed for new ones as the numbers of late and missed payments have risen.

Meat costs are finally going up, and that’s weighing on a dining industry that’s already reeling from rising minimum wages.

The White House is ramping up pressure to reach a trade deal with China in the next two weeks, warning that the U.S. is prepared to walk away from the negotiations.

Personal income for farmers fell by the most in three years in the first quarter, as losses to U.S. agriculture mount from President Donald Trump’s trade wars.

Maker of vegan meat substitutes seeks to raise $184 million and has the backing of Bill Gates, Don Thompson and Obvious Ventures.

Clear Lab uses a robotic platform to improve food safety and its method shortens testing turnaround times by up to five days.

Clear Lab uses a robotic platform to improve food safety and its method shortens testing turnaround times by up to five days.

he number of U.S. farms that are either very big or pretty small probably grew during a period when agriculture incomes fell 22 percent, pressuring mid-sized growers whose debt skyrocketed.

A deal focused on purchases of commodities such as chicken, soybeans, crude oil and LNG isn’t likely to leave the U.S. in a better position than when this process started.

U.S. trade officials including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer landed in Beijing Thursday for talks aimed at nailing down a deal with China.

Just when it looked like the trade-war pain would ease, flooding across the Midwest has done billions of dollars in damage.

The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a plan meant to expand the U.S. market for corn-based ethanol and place trading restrictions on credits that refiners use to prove they are using biofuel.

An estimated $7 billion of investment needed to meet 2025 goal of companies that want cage-free eggs.

An estimated $7 billion of investment needed to meet 2025 goal of companies that want cage-free eggs.