Ag industry leaders are asking Congress to protect the safety net in the 2023 Farm Bill.

Farmer sentiment improved modestly in April as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer reversed a two-month decline up 6 points to a reading of 123.

Most members of the House Agriculture Committee, and many on Senate Ag, face a steep learning curve on farm bill issues, which poses a challenge for ag groups as they try to shape the legislation in coming weeks.

Monday's Crop Progress Report from the USDA was being watched closely for the potential positive impact for winter wheat across the Southern Plains. Unfortunately, the heavy rain that did fall in the region had little impact on wheat conditions in the region.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) has announced the return of poultry shows for the 2023 fair season. The influx of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases forced the cancellation of in-person junior and open poultry shows at Illinois county fairs and the Illinois State Fair in 2022, with only virtual poultry shows being held.

Visiting with agricultural producers and touring research sites in Kansas on April 28, Sen. John Boozman, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, agreed that it's going to be complicated for Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion farm bill when Republican colleagues in the House just passed a debt bill meant to cut spending by $4.8 trillion.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that nearly $130 million in additional, automatic financial assistance has been obligated for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk.

The National Milk Producers Federation on Monday petitioned USDA on Monday to consider a comprehensive proposal to overhaul the way milk is priced under federal milk marketing orders.

As soil temperatures warm and planting continues, landowners across the state are faced with decisions as critical and multi-faceted as the land itself. While Iowa’s topography may not be as dynamic as in some states, even minute differences throughout a field can be augmented by the flow of water and wind. According to Lee Burras and Bradley Miller, agronomists at Iowa State University, advances in geospatial technology coupled with more traditional farming knowledge have allowed researchers and landowners to understand the land more intimately than ever before.

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

An ag meteorologist says May will start out cool and wet for much of the Corn Belt.

May is Mental Health Month and the American Farm Bureau Federation is encouraging all farmers and ranchers to reach out to their neighbors.

Alfalfa weevil eggs have started hatching in southern Nebraska. As temperatures warm up, expect to see alfalfa weevil larvae throughout southern Nebraska and slightly later, in northern Nebraska.

E15 sales will continue this summer, as the Biden administration granted a waiver Friday to a Clean Air Act provision that shuts off those sales starting on June 1 for summer ozone concerns.

A key House lawmaker defended the tightening of work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as a way to reduce federal spending, in an interview on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to allow E15 gasoline — gasoline blended with 15% ethanol — to be sold during the summer driving season.

For the first time in 34 years, Iowa farmers will begin paying a portion of their grain sales to the state's indemnity fund beginning on July 1.

An ag economist says negotiations to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative have stalled.

The World Bank projects that agricultural commodity prices will drop 7% this year and likely fall again in 2024, providing some relief from global food inflation.

Kansas State University and Scoular are partnering to create a renewable fuel market for oilseed on the Great Plains, which will provide new opportunities for Kansas farmers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the official kick-off of the implementation phase for projects funded through the $3.1 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities effort.

Farmers representing commodity groups called on lawmakers to improve the safety net in the next farm bill as the House of Representatives kicked off debate early Wednesday afternoon with a bill to cut spending on federal programs.

House Republican leaders on Wednesday narrowly won approval for their bill to raise the debt ceiling while also slashing federal spending and expanding SNAP work requirements.

Agricultural producers and landowners with certain expiring Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts can receive additional rental incentives and extend that land’s role in conservation for another 30 years.

Insignum AgTech® and Beck’s have signed an agreement to test Insignum’s innovative corn traits in Beck’s elite varieties. The companies will collaborate to cross the trait into proprietary Beck’s genetics for field-testing in 2023 to evaluate commercial viability of the traits.

A new bill introduced in Michigan would allow farmers enrolled in the state’s farmland preservation program to rent land to commercial solar operations.

Under pressure from Midwest Republicans, GOP leaders in the House of Representatives conceded to strip a few key biofuel tax credits from their debt-limit bill, setting up a potential vote on the bill as early as Wednesday -- if the votes are there.

The Environmental Protection Agency is forming a Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel to review proposed label changes for atrazine later this summer.