POLICY

If EPA allows these waivers and the backlog of SREs from 2023 to 2025, without increasing the volumes in 2026 and 2027, it will mean lower biofuels production.

EPA has already announced granting dozens of SREs and partial exemptions.

Combined, this rule will impact over two billion gallons of renewable fuels demand.

Market analysts says the September WASDE did not fully account for the disease pressure and dry finish in the East in both the corn and soybean crop.

Auction barn license fees would increase nearly 1,700% as state ag department cites program deficits.

Consumers may think that food inflation helps farmers because they assume we’re getting more money for our crops and our livestock. Yet this is not true. We don’t receive the shop price. A lot of what consumers spend goes to retail overhead, fuel and transportation, tariffs, and more.

Labor costs continue to rise for California farmers, but skilled labor isn’t something growers are able to find with the current H-2A program. Labor experts, economists and farmers agree the current immigration system is “broken,” but a solution could be on the horizon.

A federal court has vacated the Biden-Harris administration’s rule that listed the lesser prairie-chicken as an endangered species.

Hypoxic Zone in Gulf of Mexico is focus of scientists

The National Corn Growers Association has issued a call to action to Congress and the Trump administration to help find demand for the 16.7 billion bushel corn crop.