Category Archives: Agriculture News

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...

The $43 billion takeover deal by ChemChina to purchase Syngenta will likely face a regulatory review from the United States. Bloomberg reports a U.S. national security watchdog is likely to look close...

Senate Agriculture Chair Pat Roberts says a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership is not expected until after the November Elections. Roberts delivered that message to the National Association of Stat...

A new poll by Agri-Pulse finds the majority of farmers and ranchers plan to vote for a Republican in the 2016 presidential election. The poll results announced last week say 40 percent of those Republ...

A coalition of agriculture groups is calling on Congress to repeal the Cuba embargo to allow agriculture exports. The latest announcement from the Commerce Department allows more exports to Cuba, but ...

USDA says slightly more than half of the nation's dairy farms have signed up for a second year in the Margin Protection Program, the USDA safety net for milk producers. Farm Service Agency data shows ...

The Agriculture Resource Service is organizing a national bee genebank as part of the agency’s response to ongoing problems facing the country’s beekeepers. The genebank will be located in...

With Washington D.C. shut down following a massive snow storm, the House Agriculture Committee canceled a hearing regarding the Environmental Protection Agency. The House will not be in session at all...