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USDA’s spring wheat planting progress rating for the week ended May 23.
USDA’s spring wheat planting progress rating for the week ended June 13.
The $19.1 billion disaster aid bill passed by the Senate on Thursday waives the adjusted gross income for the recently announced 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP).
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.
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.
Dr. Frank Mitloehner testified Tuesday during a Senate Ag Committee hearing on Climate Change.
House Ag Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) threatened to sue the administrator of USDA’s Farm Service Agency, Richard Fordyce, over continuous sign-ups for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
While the countries continue to sort out differences and the U.S. strives to keep the Chinese accountable to their previous agreements, farmers are losing patience.
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.