Category Archives: Agriculture News

Farmers and ranchers are slightly more optimistic that Congress will get a new farm bill passed this year. However, Successful Farming says they don't think the farm bill will get used to overturn Cal...

Purdue University/CME Group's Ag Economy Barometer Index rose 17 points in June to a reading of 121. The upswing in farmer sentiment was driven by producers' more optimistic view of the future.However...

Agricultural exporters are paying close attention to contract negotiations at the nation's West Coast ports. The Pacific Maritime Association is accusing workers of deliberately slowing down operation...

Lawmakers introduced the Safe American Food Exports Act. The legislation would codify USDA's role in negotiating regionalization agreements that allow livestock, poultry, and other animal products fro...

A new tool from the Department of Agriculture seeks to help industry and small disadvantaged entities identify potential opportunities for selling their products and services to the department.Small b...

California Farm Bureau is posting on its website recent scientific work by the California Bountiful Foundation showing that California farmers and ranchers use only 15% of the total water the state re...

West Coast ports in the U.S. started negotiating a new labor contract just over a year ago. While working without a new contract in place isn't unheard of, the contract has now been expired for over 1...

USDA is extending deadlines for the Emergency Relief Program Phase Two and the Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program to July 14. The goal is to give producers more time to apply for the assistance. Also...

A USDA report says a comparison between first-quarter 2023 exports of seven animal products with the exports from the same time last year shows some improvement.Four of the categories were year-over-y...

The House Agriculture Appropriations bill provides $26.3 billion for total funding.But that’s $532 million below the 2023 funding level. The bill provides $17.1 billion to the Department of Agri...