Category Archives: Agriculture News

This is the first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in the nation.It was detected on a duck farm in Merced County and Reuters says that authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm.M...

A recent poll asked farmers where they plan to cut costs. Equipment purchases topped the list, but farmers also plan to scale back on fertilizer rates, use more generic products and reduce tillage or ...

President Donald Trump is taking aim at China and the European Union with tariff threats. That's after putting Canada and Mexico in the bullseye on day one. Bloomberg says that White House officials a...

President Donald Trump has a list of undersecretary nominees for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Via social media, Trump announced that he will nominate Richard Fordyce as Agriculture undersecreta...

427 national and state agricultural groups and agribusinesses recently sent a letter to leaders of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee supporting Brooke Rollins’ nomination as Agriculture Secr...

Farm Action reacted to the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against John Deere over the right to repair. The Commission alleges John Deere is illegally driving up costs by forcing farmers to repair ...

The latest report on foreign ownership of U.S. ag land shows that 45.85 million acres of U.S. farmland were held by foreign investors in 2023. That represents 3.61% of total privately-held agricultura...