Category Archives: Agriculture News

For those whose primary experience with corn is the butter-drenched cob variety, it might come as a surprise that other forms of sweet corn are in trouble. A new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaig...

The USDA is expanding insurance coverage options for specialty crops and other actual production history crop programs. Through the Risk Management Agency, it will expand the availability of enterpris...

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...