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Harvest 2010 is almost history.

The Federal Reserve's plan to keep interest rates where they are buy $600 billion of Treasuries, should mean good news for agriculture.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack answers tough questions in this exclusive interview

See the full list of programs without baseline funding.

Ninety-one percent of the U.S. soybean crop is harvested, according to USDA.

The rapid rate of corn harvest in the U.S. continues.

Soybeans showed the most strength this week posting 50-cent gains.

The harvest of 12.7 billion bushels, the third-largest crop in history, will still provide a surplus.

See all the important data and analysis from today's reports.

See the official soybean numbers.

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See the official cotton numbers.

In fiscal year 2010, ICE set a record for overall removals of illegal aliens

Find out the latest harvest and condition data.

In one stroke of the pen, in yesterday’s Grain Stocks report, USDA took care of the tight-stocks issue that has carried the market since June.

The last decade has been witness to the primacy of monetary policy as the main tool used by policymakers in the stabilization of inflation and output.

AgWeb breaks the report down to make it easy-to-read and navigate.

Agency is looking to start making payouts in Oct. 2010

The schism in the cattle industry is evident, and now wider, since the Department of Justice’s August hearing on competition in the livestock sector. More than 1,300 people crowded into an auditorium at Colorado State University to exchange views—and hoots, hisses, jeers and cheers—on what government should do to impact the way cattle are traded. Nearly 700 more people were herded into overflow rooms to watch the action on TV.

Politics blamed for bailouts to Southern farmers who didn't buy crop insurance.

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See this week's USDA Crop Progress and Condition Rating reports.

USDA's pasture condition ratings.

USDA's spring wheat crop progress and condition ratings.