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Judge weighing Utah law banning on undercover farm filming

Some citizens give more thought to what they’re having for dinner than who they’re voting for for president. But American voters’ decisions in the 2016 presidential election could determine what the world has—or doesn’t have—for dinner.

Some controversial new laws might soon come into play.

Hundreds of people protested Saturday in Warsaw against free-trade agreements that the European Union is pursuing with the U.S. and Canada, saying they will hurt Polish farmers and consumers.

The North Dakota Farmers Union’s potential intervention in a lawsuit over the constitutionality of the state’s anti-corporate farming law isn’t likely to affect the outcome, an attorney for North Dakota Farm Bureau says.

President Donald Trump remains in U.S. farmers’ good graces, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse survey.

The Agriculture Department says “adjustments may be made” in its decision to remove animal welfare inspection reports, enforcement records and other information about the treatment of animals from its website.

Rural Wisconsin voters await economic revival in a part of now pro-Trump America.

The House next week will hold a general rural economic outlook hearing as part of its work on a new farm bill. The Senate later this month will hold its first field hearing. The farm bill debate has begun with a goal of inking a final bill and passed by Congress by early summer 2018, but no later than September 2018.

A proposed bill in New York classifying farm dogs as “livestock” has been withdrawn.