The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday called out the conservative House Freedom Caucus for opposing disaster aid in the final days of Congress.

An ag economist says concerns over Russian wheat quality caused U.S. wheat futures to move higher Thursday.

The North Dakota Department of Agriculture has recently received confirmation of the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in three sites: a backyard chicken flock in McHenry County, a commercial turkey flock in Ransom County and a backyard mixed flock in Bottineau County. All results were confirmed at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, IA.

In a challenging economic landscape of low commodity prices and tight margins, the United Soybean Board (USB) continues to deliver economic returns to U.S. soybean farmers through strategic investments.

A team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior is launching a first-of-its-kind study to explore potential links between beef consumption and brain health.

A federal court in Texas has blocked rules for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), including the provisions that required farmers, ranchers and other businesses to provide their ownership information to the U.S. Treasury Department.

A crop insurance specialist suggests Title I Commodity programs should play a bigger part in risk management in 2025.

Researchers in South Dakota State University's Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory are racing to develop a vaccine for a new strain of a highly contagious disease that is currently wreaking havoc on the U.S. poultry industry.

As the year draws to a close, many producers rely on operating loans, or lines of credit, to finance essential expenses when cash flow is tight.

A team of researchers continues to investigate persistent diseases that prey upon soybean seedlings, such as Fusarium, Pythium, and Phytophthora. The pathogens that cause these diseases are widespread and complex, which makes it complicated when scientists delve into how they work.

Farmer sentiment jumped again in November as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer climbed 30 points to 145. Both the Current Conditions and Future Expectations indices increased in November, with the biggest improvement taking place in future expectations.

Tyson Foods has announced it will close its Emporia, Kansas processing facility in early 2025.

Net farm income, a broad measure of profits, is forecast at $140.7 billion in calendar year 2024, a decrease of $6.0 billion (4.1 percent) relative to 2023 in nominal (not adjusted for inflation) dollars. After adjusting for inflation, net farm income is forecast to decrease $9.5 billion (6.3 percent) in 2024 relative to 2023. Despite this expected decline, net farm income in 2024 would be 15.9 percent above its 20-year average (2004–23) of $121.4 billion.

U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, urged Congress to provide emergency economic assistance to agricultural producers facing market losses.

The Biden administration is set to finalize guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production tax credit before President Joe Biden leaves office come Jan. 20, 2025, a spokesperson for the U.S. Treasury Department told DTN on Tuesday.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Jamieson Greer to serve as the next U.S. Trade Representative. Greer served as former USTR Robert Lighthizer’s chief of staff during Trump’s first term.

Agricultural commodity prices slipped slightly Tuesday in morning trade following President-elect Donald Trump's vow to impose 25% import tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and a 10% tariff on products from China.

U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) recently led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack expressing concern about reports that the Colombian Government may consider a misguided investigation into U.S. corn subsidies.

AFBF and other industry coalition members achieved a crucial win yesterday that will help farmers across the country.

National Turkey Federation (NTF) Chairman John Zimmerman presented the National Thanksgiving Turkeys named Peach and Blossom to President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Monday during the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation at the White House.

It seems time has run out on getting a farm bill done during the lame duck session of Congress.

On November 22, 2024, the Chief Veterinary Officer of Mexico notified the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of a positive detection of New World screwworm (NWS) in Mexico. The NWS was found in a cow in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, at an inspection checkpoint close to the border with Guatemala. NWS are fly larvae that infest living tissue of warm-blooded animals, causing infection.

U.S. winter wheat conditions improved again last week, USDA NASS said in its final national Crop Progress report of 2024 released on Monday. The weekly reports will resume on Monday, April 7, 2025.

In comments submitted Monday in response to a request for information from the California Air Resources Board, the Renewable Fuels Association urged the state agency to do more to ensure the integrity of imported used cooking oil (UCO) and tallow for biomass-based diesel production under the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

A California dairy that sells raw, unpasteurized milk is recalling some of it after tests found the avian influenza virus was present.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Brooke Rollins of Texas to serve as the 33rd US Secretary of Agriculture.

The race is on to pass a farm bill extension before the end of the year after Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow recently released her farm bill text and it was rejected by Republicans. We asked Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., about the future of the farm bill and prospects for a package of market loss relief and disaster aid in December.

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 12.0 million head on Nov. 1, 2024. The inventory was slightly above Nov. 1, 2023, USDA NASS reported on Friday.