Category Archives: Agriculture News

Nominations for the 2016 America's Farmers Mom of the Year are now open.By nominating your favorite farm mom, she could win up to $10,000.This is the seventh year for the program.A panel of judges fro...

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a new step to support farmers transitioning to certified organic production. USDA expanded a crop insurance option to allow producers to purchase insurance cov...

The annual USDA Farm and Land in Farms report shows the nation's farms are getting bigger, and the number of farms is getting smaller. The report released by USDA shows the U.S. lost 18,000 farms last...

Farmers cannot afford to spend more on crop insurance. Michael Swanson, the chief agricultural economist at Wells Fargo, told the Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau recently that if federal crop in...

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas says his genetically modified food labeling bill is not ready. Roberts told the Hagstrom Report he hopes his bill will be bipartisan, but he...

The Agriculture Transportation Coalition is concerned that a new international container weight verification rule could negatively affect U.S. exporters. The National Pork Producers Council, part of t...

House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week his chamber does not have the votes yet to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Wisconsin Republican also said lawmakers have a long list of issues regarding ...

The Budget proposal released by the White House includes a cut to crop insurance. The budget request to Congress calls for a ten-year, $18 billion cut to the federal crop insurance program. The reques...

The National Cotton Council says 2016 will be another challenging year for the U.S. cotton industry. At the 2016 NCC annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, a market economist warned of the challenges amid l...

The 49th annual World Ag Expo opens 9am in Tulare at the International Agri-Center. This is the largest annual agricultural event of its kind in the world. More than 1,500 exhibitors have the latest f...