Category Archives: Agriculture News

USDA predicts net U.S. farm income will drop 38 percent this year to $55.9 billion. That would be the lowest level in more than a decade, reflecting lower crop prices and softening dairy and hog marke...

Live hog prices fell below $40 per hundredweight last week, their lowest level since November 2009. Purdue University Extension economist Chris Hurt says the source of the current downturn in prices h...

  It’s time to talk some turkey… talk a lot of turkey….2000 turkeys – that’s how many thanksgiving birds the Poverello House hopes to see.They have a lot of mouths t...

Deere & Company will soon provide an outlook as to what may be in store for the agriculture industry in 2016. The world's largest seller of combines and tractors will report its fiscal fourth-quar...

A bipartisan group of former U.S. Agriculture Secretaries, including Ann Veneman of California, issued an open letter urging Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The former secretaries note...

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The American Farm Bureau says if federal agencies are left the task of developing implementation guidance for the Waters of the U.S. rule, the result will be a continuation of the rule's "liabilities,...

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack will travel to Japan Thursday and then onto China over the weekend to meet with his counterparts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Vilsack said this will be his first meeti...

According to the Hagstrom Report, the European Food Safety Authority says glyphosate, which is the active ingredient in Monsanto weed killer, likely doesn't cause cancer in humans. But EFSA did propos...

Bloomberg reports Swiss pesticide maker was a recent target of the China National Chemical Corporation, otherwise known as ChemChina. People with knowledge of the deal said Syngenta has rejected ChemC...