Category Archives: Agriculture News

Image courtesy of the Visalia Convention Center VISALIA (KMJ) — A bacon eating contest is one part of a new festival taking place in Visalia this weekend. Organizers hope “Boots, Brews, &a...

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will formally propose to withdraw the "Waters of the U.S. Rule," a controversial Obama-era rule on clean water. This move will ...

 British International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer have taken the first steps towards a U.S.-U.K. free trade agreement. They recently met to create a ...

The Soft Bank Group is leading a $200 million investment into an indoor vertical farm venture in California. The Soft Bank Vision Fund is investing in Plenty, a San Francisco startup that claims it ha...

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reached a final agreement with Chinese officials to allow the United States to begin exporting rice to China for the...

It may not be front and center in agriculture like the farm bill discussion is, but farmers have a lot to worry about as Congress debates the future of health care. Politico's Morning Ag Report says f...

A Chinese investment fund has paid $1.1 billion to purchase Dow Chemical Company's corn seed business in Brazil, a move Reuters calls a further sign of China’s fast-expanding role in the global ...

Twelve cotton producers from Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri will travel west to observe cotton and other agricultural operations in California's San Joaquin Valley during th...

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Pregnant mothers who consume large quantities of fructose, a widely-used sweetener, may double their child’s risk for asthma. Researchers at Queen Mary University of...

It looks like lawmakers will have $130 billion less to write the upcoming farm bill than they did for the past one. The Congressional Budget Office made that announcement when it published its 10-year...