House Ag Committee member David Rouzer hopes the EATS Act, which would bar states from regulating the treatment of farm animals raised in other states, can be incorporated in the next farm bill.

As farming for carbon credits gains traction across the agricultural landscape, farmers and soil conservationists need easy-to-understand benchmarks to measure and monitor carbon. An Iowa State University team is poised to help.

Funding for USDA and several other federal agencies would be cut by more than 8% over the month of October under a budget proposal pitched over the weekend by a group of House Republicans to get past the chamber's budget impasse.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is taking new steps to further modernize its approach to evaluating and supporting the development of innovative animal and veterinary products, to increase regulatory flexibility, predictability and efficiency.

The state climatologist for Illinois says there is a heightened risk for field fires across the Midwest this harvest season.

The Department of Agriculture has agreed to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds to spend about $1.4 billion on a program to help farm groups market their commodities overseas and about $1.1 billion to pay for commodity-based international food aid, according to sources.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig recently announced the formation of the Livestock Protection Innovation Grant Program. The program will provide grant funding to assist Iowa-based companies in the development of safe and effective vaccines that may help protect Iowa livestock from foreign animal diseases.

The full U.S. Senate is considering the first three appropriation bills to fund the government for Fiscal Year 2024.

With two weeks left until the current farm bill expires, key players are still floating ideas about what should be in any new farm bill -- and pushing back on ideas as well.

The GOP-controlled House on Thursday advanced a bill that would eliminate states' ability to ban the sale of vehicles with internal combustion engines under the Clean Air Act.

The National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) completed the second part of its 2023 summer Farm Bill fly-ins. The first round of hill visits happened earlier this summer in July.

August 2023 was Earth’s hottest August in NOAA’s 174-year climate record.

Harvest season is upon us and the relatively dry conditions for most of the country over the last several weeks have given rise to early dry-down and allowed equipment to get out into the fields.

The USDA is projecting the largest ag trade deficit in more than two decades for Fiscal Year 2024 and a livestock economist says there are several contributing factors.

The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to complete its strategy to address the impact of herbicides on endangered species by May 2024.

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is once again receiving reports of consumers receiving unsolicited packages containing seeds from China in the mail.

Earlier this week, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) spoke at the Growth Energy Biofuels Summit where she was presented with the organization’s 2023 Fueling Growth Award for her work to support homegrown fuels.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack didn't pull any punches on Tuesday when talking about rural America's and ethanol's future in sustainable aviation fuel production.

A congressional proposal to bar states from regulating agricultural products produced or manufactured in other states has divided governors and state agriculture officials.

Have you ever taken a closer look at your spending and been shocked by how much you pay for subscription services? The soybean cyst nematode (SCN) can be a similar drain on your finances, flying under the radar and chipping away yield potential as years pass.

The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday proposed a new rule that would strengthen protections for farm workers in the H-2A program and help prevent abuses that undermine wages and standards for all agricultural workers.

The USDA has raised its outlook for the 2023 U.S. corn crop, while cutting the projection for soybeans.

An ag economist says Tuesday’s supply and demand numbers from the USDA will be significant to the nation’s cattle and hog producers.

Basil Gooden, a former Virginia agriculture secretary who has been directing state operations for USDA Rural Development for the past two years, was nominated Monday by President Joe Biden to be the department’s new undersecretary for rural development.

With increasing production and limited crop drying this fall, the propane outlook looks favorable for the agriculture sector.

The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Milk Loss Program (MLP) assistance for eligible dairy operations for milk that was dumped or removed, without compensation, from the commercial milk market due to qualifying weather events and the consequences of those weather events that inhibited delivery or storage of milk (e.g., power outages, impassable roads, infrastructure losses, etc.) during calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022. 

India is reducing the basic tariff on some U.S. poultry products including turkey and duck, a significant advancement for U.S. poultry exports, it was announced Friday.

A market analyst says he’s closely watching yield estimates in next Tuesday’s supply and demand report from the USDA.