A new sustainability initiative aims to help address greenhouse gas emissions in beef production.

UNL released the Preliminary Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey Results earlier this month.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has signed a bill into law to protect South Dakota farmers from nuisance claims.

A survey of farmers by a major analytical firm is projecting higher corn, soybean, and wheat acreage in 2023.

Wide extremes from dry to wet dominate the soil moisture situation across most of the prime crop areas in the United States this early spring. This have and have-not status leads to questions about moisture availability to bring more than a fraction of the hard red winter wheat crop to fruition, while snow cover and wet soils show up from the Northern Plains to the Ohio Valley.

University of Minnesota students conducted crucial genome sequencing for the newly discovered soybean gall midge — a pest that is threatening the soybean crop, one of the most widely cultivated and consumed throughout the world.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is requesting $7.4 billion for its Fiscal Year 2024 budget, but shipping and port groups are concerned the agency is not planning to put enough of its trust funds for construction and maintenance projects to use.

The U.S. ethanol supply is the largest in nearly a year.

Americans likely are receiving smaller tax refunds than they have in recent years, and most people will not be going out to spend this money, according to the February 2023 Consumer Food Insights Report.

Russia has agreed to a 60-day extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative with Ukraine.

U.S. senators on Tuesday reintroduced legislation to allow year-round E15 sales nationally, as the ethanol industry continues to push for those sales to be allowed for the 2023 summer driving season that starts on June 1.

The American poultry sector is awaiting a spring spike in detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza, leading industry and government officials to wonder if the disease has pivoted from an occasional concern to a permanent part of raising birds in the United States.

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the America Works Act, a bill to reform work requirements for able-bodied Americans receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

Russia and Ukraine began negotiations Monday to extend an agreement to export grain out of the Black Sea.

On Friday, March 10, the Silicon Valley Bank with 17 branches in California and Massachusetts became the first bank failure since the Federal Reserve started its campaign to bring down inflation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking for public input on two water quality conservation initiatives, the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) and the National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI).

Supermarket prices rose another 0.3% last month, driven in part by jumps in the cost of beef and pork, but food inflation continues to ease from the spikes shoppers saw in 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

The president of the National Corn Growers Association says he’s glad the U.S. is in consultations with Mexico on the GMO corn ban.

Farmers in nine states who lost grain bins or handling equipment due to storms could be eligible for assistance from USDA’s Farm Service Agency.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday used the Commodity Classic show to sign a pair of agreements with farm groups to boost soil-health practices under USDA's Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities.

The deadline for farmers to lock in their crop insurance choices is just around the corner.

Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today renewed their effort to support the Beagle Brigade, canine detection units – made up mostly of beagles – used at airports and ports of entry.

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture says while it wants to see a strong commodity title in the farm bill, it is focusing its efforts on ag research, cybersecurity and trade.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the Department received $3 billion in applications from more than 350 independent businesses from 47 states and 2 territories for the first two rounds of a new grant program to add innovative domestic fertilizer production capacity.

Farm programs are left unscathed from budget cuts under President Joe Biden's fiscal year 2024 budget proposal, but the president's plan calls for increasing corporate taxes and income taxes on higher-income earners to shave the growth of the national debt over the next decade.

The U.S. House has voted to block the Biden administration’s Waters of the U.S. Rule.

An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency is exploring a variety of solutions that would allow E15 sales to take place in 2023 while also advancing a petition to legalize the sales in the Midwest the following year.

Data gathered by NASA shows that weather extremes will worsen over the next decade.