Category Archives: Agriculture News

The U.S. economy still has considerable momentum and is not currently on the verge of recession, according to CoBank’s 2023 Year Ahead report. However, economists have never been more pessimisti...

Americans are paying up to 40% more for their vegetables than in 2021, and drought is a big reason for the price hike. A new report from Daily Mail says the increase is due, in large part, to states t...

USDA announces the second group of organizations selected to receive funding through USDA's Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Program. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the additional fu...

U.S. Trade Rep Katherine Tai and Japan's Ambassador to the U.S. confirmed that amendments to the beef safeguard trigger level under the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement will trigger on January 1, 2023. The ...

A poll of voters commissioned by the International Dairy Foods Association shows strong support for reforming immigration policy as a way to help control food prices. Almost 90% of Democrat voters and...

USDA's Economic Research Service finds cover crop mixes account for 18 to 25% of acres with cover crops. However, the use of single-species cover crops is more common. For corn fields in 2021, almost ...

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is grateful for Congress taking swift action to prevent a crippling national rail shutdown. "A rail strike would have had significant and long-lasting effects on the American ...

Agriculture groups welcome President Biden’s call on Congress to avert a potential rail worker strike. Corey Rosenbusch of The Fertilizer Institute praised the action by Biden, adding, "Congress...

U.S. farms received 14.5 cents per dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2021 which is a decrease of one cent from a revised 15.5 cents in 2020. The figure is the lowest recorded farm share va...

The USDA mailed survey codes to all known U.S. ag producers with the invitation to respond online to the 2022 Census of Agriculture at agcounts.usda.gov. The ag census is the nation's only comprehensi...