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Enrollment of more than 800,000 acres of land into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), including 411,000 acres via general signup 49, another 364,000 acres under continuous signup efforts and 101,000 acres via the new CRP Grasslands effort, has been announced by USDA.

We’ve seen this accelerating financial constraint environment in farming before. And it clearly is upon us. Key question: How long will it last? While some say two to three more years, others say longer.

My country’s government would rather see people starve than let them eat genetically modified food.

The worst thing we can do for people who struggle to feed their families is to make food more expensive.

Using technology and data-mining are two of the ways that USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is utilizing to make sure the integrity of the federal crop insurance program is intact.

Krysta Harden, the former U.S. deputy secretary of agriculture, will join DuPont as vice president of public policy and chief sustainability officer.

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

Producers have taken out marketing assistance loans (MALs) an increasing amount of 2015-crop corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum, according to USDA data.

For the 22nd time in his Administration, President Obama has improperly leveraged the Antiquities Act of 1906 to lock up millions of acres of the American West.

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