Category Archives: Agriculture News

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...

The National Milk Producers Federation and the International Dairy Foods Association say the USDA's proposed changes to the Women, Infants, and Children's Nutrition Program will limit dairy access. "U...

The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol released a report showing increasing improvement in the sustainability of American cotton production. The report shows significant improvements in important sustainabili...

Leadership of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees will likely be the same in the next Congress. Who controls the majority in the House, along with the Senate, will have a significant say in th...

A new analysis from CoBank suggests consumers will see smaller and higher-priced turkeys this Thanksgiving season. After grappling with staff shortages, plant closures, and supply issues, the turkey i...

Farmer sentiment weakened again in October as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer fell to a reading of 102, down ten points compared to a month earlier. The barometer's Index of Curre...