The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Monday issued a comprehensive proposed rule and determination to more effectively reduce Salmonella contamination and illnesses associated with raw poultry products.

United today became the first airline to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for use at O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Governor JB Pritzker joined the airline's leadership at ORD to highlight the role that Illinois' SAF tax credits played in bringing sustainable aviation fuel to one of the largest airports in the U.S.

Cover crops can be an asset to a farming operation because of their varied benefits, but adding a cover crop to an existing rotation can be intimidating. Researchers across the Midwest are conducting projects so farmers can gain information and avoid challenges in the early stages of cover crop adoption.

There were slight changes to the USDA’s national corn and soybean condition ratings over the past week. That followed another mixed week of weather in major U.S. growing areas.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced changes to the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) beginning with the 2025 crop year. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is expanding coverage options to additional crops as well as increasing premium support to make the policy more affordable for producers.

The very real and damaging consequences of Congress’ failure to pass a modernized farm bill are brought to light in a new analysis by American Farm Bureau Federation economists.

Last week's market was a fiery one for both the live cattle and feeder cattle complex as fundamental demand helped rally traders and the gains were not only seen in the countryside, but also throughout the futures complex.

The Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory in Columbus will soon be home to The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) new state-of-the-art dairy facility, replacing the outdated 1972 structure demolished in March.

Temperatures will be heating up in the Corn Belt heading into August and affecting some of the crops, but ag meteorologist Drew Lerner says “it’s going to be really hard to pull yields down nationwide to the point where we have a raging bull (grain) market or anything like that.”

A federal appeals court vacated Biden administration reversals of small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard in a judgment handed down Friday.

Members of the U.S. House have been dismissed for the August recess a week early without passing 12 annual funding bills including USDA’s budget or taking further action on the farm bill.

The Biden administration should set fair and reasonable criteria around farming practices for farmers and refineries seeking tax credits for sustainable aviation fuels, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) said in comments submitted last week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

U.S. Reps. Elissa Slotkin (MI-07) and David Valadao (R-CA) on Friday introduced new legislation to address the ongoing detections of highly pathogenic avian flu in dairy cattle.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its draft Insecticide Strategy for public comment, another milestone in the agency’s work to adopt early, practical protections for federally endangered and threatened (listed) species.

Reducing its workforce by perhaps more than 2,000 employees in the past several months, Deere & Company is responding both to economics and to a vision for what it is becoming -- a manufacturer of machinery still, but one that foresees higher value in technology.

House Ag Committee leaders heard strong support for reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of a subcommittee hearing Thursday.

AGCO has agreed to sell most of its grain and protein business for $700 million to American Industrial Partners, an industrials investor worth $16 billion, in an all-cash transaction.

Insignum AgTech has begun a collaboration with researchers in Purdue University’s College of Agriculture and College of Engineering to create tools for farmers to identify early stages of tar spot disease outbreaks in their corn plants.

The latest Rural Mainstreet Index has declined for an eleventh consecutive month.

Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to agriculture in her home state of California, the nation’s No. 1 state by far in agricultural production.

Progress fighting global hunger has been set back 15 years, leaving around 733 million people going hungry in 2023, equivalent to one in 11 people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published on Wednesday.

On the afternoon of July 15, 2024, a severe windstorm developed in eastern Iowa that moved through northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and northern Indiana into the early morning hours of July 16. The windstorm was classified as a derecho, or a windstorm that contains constant severe wind gusts along its path of at least 240 miles.

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led a bipartisan, bicameral group of 51 of her colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of the Treasury to issue timely guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit to give farmers, blenders, retailers, and fuel users certainty and the time needed to make additional clean fuel projects a reality.

A panel of farmers, retailers and lenders on Tuesday urged lawmakers to pass a new farm bill by the end of this year, saying the legislation would help offset the falling crop prices, high production costs and rising interest rates producers are expected to see in the year ahead.

The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a G2 geomagnetic storm watch for July 24. A solar storm of this intensity may affect high-frequency radio, but only at higher latitudes.

The president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives says recent changes in the upcoming presidential election and other politics have Congress in observation mode instead of completing a new farm bill.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Tuesday confirmed that efforts to prevent ultra-processed, lab-grown protein from showing up in the diet of the American armed forces were successful, following news that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is not pursuing lab-grown protein projects for human consumption.

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) released a new economic contribution report detailing the significant impact America’s pig farmers have on the United States’ agricultural and overall economy. The report highlights the pork industry’s value chain contributions and trends in production and industry structure.