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Amazon’s Whole Foods Deal Wins Swift U.S. Antitrust Approval (1)

John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, reports that a shipment of rice will travel from the port of Houston/Galveston to the Republic of Cuba - the first shipment of its kind in a decade.

The share farmers receive for farm commodity sales for domestically produced food fell in 2015, the last year such data is available. On average, farmers receive 15.6 cents on each dollar consumers spend on food, according to recent reporting from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS).

Thousands of Kentucky farms involved in direct community sales.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the government can’t force raisin farmers to give up part of their annual crop for less than it’s worth, a victory for conservative groups that hailed the decision as a win for private property rights.

The May USDA reports have now come and gone. Dan Hueber thinks there is only one message to carry away, which, realistically, should not have been shocking.

The federal government has fined the Lynchburg Livestock Market $10,000 for improperly allowing its bank to use money from a custodial account.

A lot rests on whether or not we will sufficiently cut corn acres. Research firms go through this exercise every year to try to guess what we farmers will do.

Find out what the big news could be with Friday’s USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports.

Farm cooperatives posted record sales and income in 2011, beating the previous record sales year of 2008 by $10 billion, according to USDA.