Category Archives: Agriculture News

The federal government is reducing charges for federal grazing in 2019. The federal grazing fee for 2019 will drop to $1.35 per animal unit-month for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Ma...

The Environmental Protection Agency has rescheduled public hearings on the updated Waters of the U.S. definition. Hearings were scheduled to take place during the government shutdown, but were postpon...

The World Ag Expo at the International Agri-Center in Tulare is billed as the largest annual agricultural exposition of its kind. It’s Open again on Wednesday and Thursday. Nearly 1,500 exhibito...

A total of 18 million trees died in California last year, the US Department of Agriculture said Monday. "Years of drought and a bark beetle epidemic have caused one of the largest tree die-offs in sta...

A U.S. appeals court will reconsider its recent decision ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the popular California farm pesticide chlorpyrifos. The Trump administration persuaded the ...

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, and two other coalitions with dozens of trade associations involved are backing legislation dealing with tariffs in national security situations. Leg...

Politico says the month-plus government shutdown has left U.S. Department of Agriculture officials with quite the backlog of commodity reports. They also have a lot of other numbers waiting to be crun...

The U.S. dairy sector is worried about access to the lucrative Japan market. Dairy groups and officials are sending a brand-new, industry-funded study to President Donald Trump, administration officia...

A senior USDA official says the amount of money sent to farmers in California and across the nation to help mitigate the financial damage from the trade war may not be as much as expected. An Agricult...