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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.
After accepting payments for approving USDA loans for cash payments, a former Farm Service Agency loan officer will spend two years in federal prison.
The data was five years in the making. What will it tell us about farms, farming and farmers?
As usual, there’s farmer buzz and speculation about the accuracy of the numbers because many farmers don’t fill out the survey.
USDA will release the 2017 Census of Agriculture on Thursday, April 11. Ahead of the data release, take a look at some key data sets from the 2012 edition.
Agriculture industry leaders warn such a closure would likely cause more hardship forcing some farms out of business.
The Democrat-led New York state Senate is holding the first of three hearings dedicated to proposals to expand the labor rights of farmworkers.
The Missouri Senate has passed a bill to block local officials from regulating industrial farms more strictly than the state does.
12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to cease issuing Renewable Identification Number (RIN) waivers also known as “hardship” waivers.
President Donald Trump remains in U.S. farmers’ good graces, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse survey.
More than 960 groups representing the U.S. food and agriculture value chain at the national, state and local are urging Congress to quickly ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Mexico is the largest volume destination for U.S. pork exports and the third-largest export market for U.S. beef.
Following the trade aid announcement earlier this week, farmers were left with more questions than answers.
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.
EPA on Friday granted 31 more controversial waivers allowing refiners for forgo blending requirements of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
For the past two years the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been issuing small refinery hardship waivers, which allow the awarded refiners to forgo blending ethanol with their fuels.
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.
Farmers in the crowd did not find the joke funny, but it did inspire farmers watching from afar to share their own ag jokes on Twitter.
While the payments are a blanket rate by county, there’s no blanket suggestion on what farmers should do with those funds.
The Chinese government has asked its state-owned enterprises to suspend imports of U.S. agricultural products.
Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas will not seek reelection in 2020.
While some data points to a dramatic decline in the trade deficit, other data tells the opposite story. John Phipps breaks down the discrepancy in John’s World.
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.
Both sides have different views on what was promised in Osaka
Every qualifying farmer will receive at least $15 an acre, according to Perdue.
The amount of uncertainty surrounding this year’s corn and soybean crops was reflected in today’s round of USDA reports.
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The European Union joined China and five other WTO members in criticizing the Trump administration’s $16 billion assistance program for U.S. farmers, indicating the bailout may violate international rules.
When President Trump visited an Iowa ethanol plant in June, farmers attending the event took the opportunity to help President Trump understand how RIN waivers are undermining the RFS.
Chinese tariffs deliver financial blows to America’s heartland and President Donald Trump’s base