Category Archives: Agriculture News

Congress has until December 18th or two weeks, to pass tax extenders important to agriculture. The House earlier this year voted Section 179 expensing permanent, among other tax extenders, but the Sen...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture will host informational sessions on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Final Rules for Produce Safety ...

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The surplus in agricultural trade will tumble 63 percent to the lowest in a decade, according to a report by Bloomberg. That's because of lower commodity prices and a stronger dollar that reduces the ...

University of California researchers says protecting animals that enter the human food supply should require agnostic governance of technologies that affect animal science, especially regarding geneti...

  Despite recent storms, no change was made to the intensity of drought in California or Nevada over the past week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor released November 25. The cutoff for the ...

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...