The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $40 million this year for 31 new projects through its Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program, including the Innovative Technologies to Reduce Beef Industry Ghg Emissions project led by Colorado State University (CSU).

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comments on approval of a corn variety genetically engineered to resist western corn rootworm and glufosinate-ammonium herbicides.

On Tuesday, April 11 at 11 a.m. CDT, USDA will issue the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) for April. Much of the attention will be on South American production estimates and there will likely be small tweaks to U.S. ending stocks estimates of corn and soybeans, but not much else.

U.S. ag exporters are suffering painful losses after a union stopped work at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach amid protracted contract negotiations, according to the Agriculture Transportation Coalition.

Despite urgent requests from the ag industry to authorize E15 this summer, a biofuels group says a long-term solution can’t be overlooked.

Planting season is quickly approaching for Indiana’s 94,000 farmers. With the warm weather and sunshine, Hoosier motorists will also see more large slow-moving farm equipment traveling Indiana’s rural roads and highways.

The last year was a difficult one for the eastern monarch butterfly, according to a report just released that indicates monarchs occupying forest canopy in their wintering grounds in Mexico decreased by 22%, down from approximately 7 acres in 2021 to a little under 5 ½ acres during the winter of 2022-2023.

As promised, President Joe Biden vetoed a joint resolution from Congress to overturn his administration’s “waters of the U.S.” rule, likely dooming the measure to failure.

Iowa Learning Farms and a small group of farmers will get the chance to test the benefits of "relay intercropping" under a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant awarded Thursday.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor will lead USDA’s first-ever regional agribusiness trade mission to the Netherlands between April 17-20.

Egg prices were trending downward in recent months but were rising again based on seasonal demand for Easter, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.

The USDA says the week ending March 30th was a solid week for meat export sales.

Medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations receiving USDA loans will be required to have an environmental assessment after a federal court on Tuesday vacated part of a 2016 Farm Service Agency rule.

A record value of beef and pork exports brought significant returns to the U.S. corn and soybean industries in 2022, according to an independent study conducted by World Perspectives, Inc. and released by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Storm damage has ravaged parts of rural America stretching across a wide stretch of the United States over the last week, but area residents say some of the localized damage will not hinder efforts to plant 2023 row crops.

The American Farm Bureau Federation told USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack that requests to increase make allowances – which are used in part to calculate how much a processor pays for milk – fall short of fairly supporting dairy farmers.

Research at Michigan State University is using DNA testing in soil samples to determine a farmer’s risk of soybean diseases.

Biofuel and farm leaders today called on President Biden to get ahead of rising fuel costs by authorizing sales of E15 this summer.

The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to give conservation uses of the land it manages “equal footing” with grazing, energy production, mining, and recreation, and to even allow companies to lease lands for environmental mitigation.

Crop insurance has become the biggest safety net for commodity producers -- despite talk about disaster programs -- leading at least some economists to question whether crop insurance has become too costly or taken the risk out of farming.

A reprieve from cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Minnesota is over.

The negative impacts of drought, high nitrogen prices and other high prices associated with pasture management have left some pastures in the state in less-than-ideal condition.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a complaint and demanded a jury trial against Dichao Xie over what the agency called a "fraudulent scheme" in which he misused non-public information to trade on the feeder cattle futures and options market.

Agricultural technology advancements and adoption could be accelerated by federal legislation.

The Biden administration's “waters of the U.S.” rule survived a court challenge in Kentucky, where a federal judge rejected an injunction request by the state and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce to enjoin the rule.

Farmer sentiment weakened ­again in March as the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer fell 8 points to a reading of 117. Both of the barometer’s sub-indices declined 8 points in March, leaving the Current Conditions Index at 126 and the Future Expectations Index at 113.

The U.S. winter wheat crop reflects the impact of drought in the U.S. Plains and wet conditions in parts of the Midwest.

Following extensive engagement by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Embassy Tokyo, Japan published a new biofuels policy today that will allow the United States to capture up to 100 percent of Japan’s on-road ethanol market.