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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Soils with seasonal highs can benefit greatly from being tiled.
Commodity prices may be down, but land prices remain on the rise, according to the latest USDA Land Values Summary.
EPA tries to clear up confusion and concerns about its proposed changes to the Clean Water Act, yet farmers remain skeptical.
Members of the NCBA addressed current policy priorities at the 2014 Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver this week, passing new resolutions and directives for the 2014 Policy Agenda.
The country’s next generation of farmers and ranchers may have a better chance at success with extra help that the federal government unveiled Monday.
When enrollment opened for the USDA disaster assistance programs this April, LaNelle Martin was one of the first to sign up at the Kimball County FSA office in Nebraska.
Importantly for members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, this bill contains a provision that will ease the burden of the EPA’s Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure rule.
Federal officials have designated five Idaho counties as natural disaster areas due to recent drought conditions.
Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod filed the lawsuit against the late blogger Andrew Breitbart, who in 2010 posted an edited video of Sherrod, who is black, supposedly making racist remarks.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to resume inspections of in-bound cattle from Agua Prieta, Mexico.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are hunting for more power—and agriculture is in their crosshairs.
While the measure is likely to have limited impact, it does signal the GMO labeling push is gaining momentum.
A turf battle between a southern Nevada rancher and federal land managers has escalated after authorities said they plan to round up cattle that have been allowed to graze for decades on remote public land northeast of Las Vegas.
The 2014 forecast of total red meat and poultry production is lowered from last month as higher beef production is more than offset by lower pork, broiler, and turkey production.
The group says this is a tremendous roadblock to ordinary land use activities.
Livestock producers are eligible for USDA drought aid.
The changes stemming from the new farm bill take effect immediately.
Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1459, Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments (EPIC) Act with a vote of 222-201.
Animal protection advocates applauded President Barack Obama on Tuesday for proposing to continue a federal funding ban that’s blocking the resumption of commercial horse slaughter in the U.S.
A lot rests on whether or not we will sufficiently cut corn acres. Research firms go through this exercise every year to try to guess what we farmers will do.
A budget bill pending in Congress would effectively reinstate a federal ban on horse slaughter by cutting funding for inspections at a New Mexico company and other plants.
Crop receipts are expected to decline by more than 12%.
The final farm bill will decide the fate of the Obama administration’s proposal to move to more cash purchases in foreign countries.
Some who were quoted in a recent Associated Press investigative report on ethanol are saying that they were misled and misrepresented.
The “Balancing Act: Regulating Innovation” broadcast on Dec. 5th will have host Mike Adams interviewing guests Sarah Bittleman and Jack Bobo.
Some farmers may not participate if premiums are raised for the highest-income operations, as the Senate farm bill would do.