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Do you consider your neighbor’s five-acre property with 12 chickens a farm? No? What about your neighbor with two show pigs? No still? If that’s the case, the folks behind the USDA Census of Agriculture disagree.
China shifts toward market-driven policies, rapid adoption of farming technology
Agriculture might benefit from less oversight, but trade policies could see a setback from president-elect Trump’s plans.
A new anti-GMO campaign by Hunt’s is creating quite the reaction.
Despite whether these changes happen or not, there are two key issues farmers need to be aware of when it comes to dealing with the farm bill and Section 179 is at the top of that list.
Next week, President-elect Donald Trump will meet with Elsa Murano, 57, a candidate for Agriculture Secretary.
Thousands of Kentucky farms involved in direct community sales.
Donald Trump has chosen Peter Navarro, one of the most ardent critics of trade with China, to head his newly created National Trade Council -- a move many consider to be the opening shot in a trade war.
The bill would unwind Montana water law, a premise that virtually guarantees its failure at the Legislature.
While they fall on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is coming out in favor of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as the next U.S. ambassador to China.
Lots of questions and even some answers emerge as the new administration takes shape.
Less corn and soybeans could be destined for China if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with placing tariffs on Chinese imports.
Bank of Agriculture will start taking deposits, minister says.
American consumers and businesses would pay - literally - if President-elect Donald Trump followed through on his campaign pledge to slap big taxes on imports from China and Mexico.
Some Cubans fondly remember Castro for his personal involvement in the daily problems of individual citizens, while others say he created a leader-dependent autocracy that remains virtually immobile without direct commands from the president.
The death of Cuba’s Fidel Castro offers an early glimpse at how U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will need to balance his pro-growth economic plans and allegiance to business with the hard-line campaign pledges that helped him win the election.
Food production is a global effort, and officials at The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, say they are willing to cross borders for good business opportunities. Climate recently announced it has acquired VitalFields, a farm management software company based in Estonia.
Since election night Farm Country has been buzzing over speculation of who President-Elect Trump will appoint to lead the EPA and USDA. Here’s who made the short list.
A judge has ruled three counties in Hawaii can’t ban or regulate genetically modified crops and pesticides.
China’s stance on U.S. trade can be illustrated by one of Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion: For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction.
The agriculture sector of the United States wonders what President-elect Donald Trump will have in store at the beginning of his term.
When the Oklahoma Right to Farm bill was defeated in the election this week, producers wondered what the impact would be, both short- and long-term.
Tuesday’s presidential election outcome created uncertainty for two unfinished trade deals and one existing trade pact that’s been in place since the 1992.
Will President-elect Donald Trump remake school lunches into his fast-food favorites of burgers and fried chicken?
So-called “GMO-free” zones have been sprouting up county by county across the U.S.
Oklahoma was geographically divided on a “Right to Farm” vote for State Question 777.
Charles (Chuck) Grassley has served Iowans in the U.S. Senate since 1981, and citizens of the Hawkeye State have once again reelected him, this time for his 7th Senate term.
As Americans head to the polls on Election Day, there have been dozens of polls and surveys attempting to predict the outcome of not only the presidential election, but hotly contested U.S. Senate and House races as well. As media companies and universities attempt to take the political pulse of America, we at Farm Journal have decided to conduct our own, unscientific exit poll.
House GOP lawmakers are asking for a revised atrazine assessment.
Jailed Nevada cattlemen Cliven Bundy is suing a Democratic candidate for Congress, accusing him of defamation with a campaign mailer that Bundy says blames him for the ambush deaths of two Las Vegas police officers in June 2014.