Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday visited Annandale Terrace Elementary School in Annandale, Virginia, where he unveiled two new grant opportunities plus a training and technical assistance partnership to help schools continue to invest in nutritious school meals.

The U.S. soybean harvest made a big jump over the past week.

Thirteen states have entered the fight against a Massachusetts animal welfare law requiring farms to meet minimum animal housing size requirements to sell pork products.

The future of a new farm bill as well as spending on ag and nutrition programs are at stake as Republicans struggle to agree on a new House speaker this week.

Smithfield Foods will close its Charlotte, North Carolina, pork-processing plant and transfer production to its Tar Heel, North Carolina, facility to increase efficiency and better utilize existing capacity.

A former U.S. ambassador who helped to negotiate an iconic agricultural trade agreement with China said that America’s farmers have a bright future if the industry can capitalize on available opportunities for exports, technology and value-added products.

New restrictions have been put in place for transit through the Panama Canal as the low water crisis continues to plague ship movement there.

Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA is projecting another record large soybean crop.

Farm bill discussions could continue to be contentious with another government funding deadline in November, Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said on the latest episode of Agri-Pulse Newsmakers.

As fall approaches, it is important to keep in mind proper nutrition and care of the herd sires after the breeding season.

With propane prices lower than last year and supply above the five-year average, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging propane consumers to make preparations ahead of the arrival of colder temperatures and winter conditions.

War has broken out between Israel and a Palestine nationalist organization in the Middle East, and that’s having some impact on commodity and input prices for U.S. farmers.

Frost on the pumpkin might be the sign there's a chill in the air, but soybean farmers are hoping they don't have a serving of frozen green beans to go with it.

Eleven farm-state Republican lawmakers from the Senate and House are asking the Commerce Department to reverse a preliminary decision that would significantly raise the countervailing duty on Russian phosphate fertilizer.

The cost of purchasing a turkey could be lower this Thanksgiving, thanks to a drop in avian influenza cases and a recovery of the turkey population in the United States.

U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced the “Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Act” to extend and enhance the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP).

The chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee says the farm bill markup has hit a detour.

Volatile commodity markets are allowing international agricultural trading companies to rake in big profits in shadowy financial markets even as food insecurity increases in some of the most vulnerable regions of the globe, says a new analysis from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that calls for regulations to rein in the excesses.

Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of September 2023 are showing a more pronounced split as some prices rise and others fall.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced $27.6 million in grants to provide training, outreach and technical assistance to underserved and veteran farmers, ranchers, and foresters to help them own and operate successful farms, ranches, and forest lands.

Researchers Drs. Noelle Noyes, Montserrat Torremorell, and colleagues at the University of Minnesota developed a workflow called TELSVirus, or Target-Enriched Long-Read Sequencing of Virus, that enables the real-time detection and genomic characterization of multiple viral pathogens from a single sample in a relatively short turnaround time (approximately 24 hours).

It remains unclear who will become the next Speaker of the U.S. House, but Kam Quarles CEO of the National Potato Council says it needs to happen quickly.

EPA approved Ohio's plan to reduce phosphorus runoff from farms into the western basin of Lake Erie nine years after Toledo residents were warned to boil drinking water during a three-day period because of an algae bloom in the lake.

Agricultural productivity continues to fall below the needed targets to meet the global demands of feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050 as outlined by the latest Global Agricultural Productivity report.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced $23 million in awards to support dairy businesses and producers under the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives (DBI) grant program.

Joining Senator Hawley’s efforts to protect working families in southern Missouri, Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to Donnie King, Chief Executive Officer of Tyson Foods, encouraging him to sell, rather than close, two of Tyson’s plants in Dexter and Noel, Missouri.

The fate of the farm bill remains very much up in the air.

Agricultural producers’ sentiment declined for the second month in a row during September as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer fell 9 points to a reading of 106.