100-Dollar-Ideas

USDA’s Crop Progress report shows 34% of the corn crop has reached maturity.

Trump to Declare China as a `Strategic Competitor’ in Speech (1)

Today, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that Tony Tooke will become the new Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Tooke, who grew up on a 200-acre farm outside Detroit, Ala., has been with the Forest Service since he was 18.

Things have been going smoothly for former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue on his road to lead the USDA, but it might not stay that way.

Since Donald Trump’s election, state officials, emergency managers and even some Republicans in Congress said they hoped the president’s skepticism about climate change wouldn’t cause him to toss programs meant to protect Americans against its consequences -- stronger storms, longer droughts, rising sea levels and more intense heat waves. That seems to have been too optimistic.

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.

So-called “GMO-free” zones have been sprouting up county by county across the U.S.

A bill that would relax weight and load restrictions for farm equipment on Nebraska’s roads has advanced out of a legislative committee.

Pro Farmer’s Brian Grete and Meghan Pedersen discuss farm bill safety net options.

Most dairy farmers don’t realize there is a hole in their farm liability insurance coverage that is so big they could drive a manure tanker through it.