Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order modifying the scope of the reciprocal tariffs that he first announced on April 2, 2025. Specifically, certain qualifying agricultural products will no longer be subject to those tariffs.

The USDA says it is taking steps in the battle against highly pathogenic avian influenza.

USDA finally gave us some updated crop production and demand data on Friday, having decided to do so even before the vote to end the government shutdown.

The longest government shutdown in American history is over. President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation that will fully fund USDA and the FDA through the rest of the new fiscal year.

With the 2025 U.S. fall harvest winding to a close, traders and producers will turn their attention to USDA after two months of crop size speculation.

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says biofuel stakeholders met with President Trump Thursday to discuss permanent year-round E15 legislation.

Last week in Mexico City, Mexico, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins led the largest U.S. Department of Agriculture agribusiness trade mission in the history of our country.

For nearly a century, federal food purchasing and nutrition programs have played a dual role, feeding Americans while providing dependable markets for U.S. farmers and ranchers.

The longest partial government shutdown appears close to an end after President Donald Trump signed a funding bill into law on Wednesday evening that also extends farm-bill programs.

The National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) and the American Soybean Association (ASA) today sent a joint letter to President Donald J. Trump, urging the administration to finalize key biofuel policies that strengthen domestic energy production, promote the use of U.S.-grown soybean oil, and ensure that federal programs prioritize American feedstocks over imports.

The chairman of the National Hemp Association says legislation included in the agriculture funding bill passed this week by the U.S. Senate rewrites the 2018 farm bill’s provision on hemp.

In this article, the first of two exploring opportunities in biofuel markets, we examine permanent year-round E15 authorization.

Agricultural lenders report signs of tighter conditions in farm profitability and credit quality in 2025, according to a joint survey conducted by the American Bankers Association and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, or Farmer Mac.

Average retail prices for four of the eight major fertilizers were higher than last month, while prices for the other four were lower during the first week of November 2025, according to sellers surveyed by DTN.

Support from the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage, county option (ARC-CO) programs for the 2024 crop year are currently being processed and distributed by the Farm Service Agency.

The executive vice president of the Illinois Beef Association says talks of importing Argentinian beef have reignited calls for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (MCOOL).

The U.S. Senate broke a 41-day long stalemate on Monday evening by passing a funding bill to end the longest partial government shutdown in history.

An ag economist says the lack of trade and export data from the USDA is adding to the volatility to beef and pork markets.

In the second quarter of 2025, year-over-year loan demand in the Chicago district exceeded that of the St. Louis district.

ADM, a global leader in innovative solutions from nature, today marked the start of operations for a new carbon capture and storage project at its Columbus, Nebraska Corn Processing Complex, making the complex the largest bioethanol carbon capture facility in the world.

Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Nov. 9.

President Trump remains focused on beef prices and has called on the Department of Justice to investigate potential anticompetitive practices in the meatpacking industry.

A new report released by Purdue University’s College of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) projects that employment opportunities will remain strong for new college graduates with degrees in food, agriculture, renewable natural resources and the environment (FARNRE).

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week on President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the top Democrat on the Senate Ag Committee, discusses attending the arguments and why she believes the court will strike down the president’s use of a 1977 law to implement his tariffs.

While China had agreed at the meeting between presidents Trump and Xi to buy 440 million bushels (mb) by the end of the year and 25 million metric tons (mmt), or 918 mb, for the following three years, we have not seen that in writing from China and to date only minor soy purchases by China have been reported.

The Department of the Interior has added phosphate and potash to the official Critical Minerals List and the vice president of government affairs at The Fertilizer Institute says it’s good news for America’s farmers.

It’s been forty years since the Food Security Act of 1985 introduced conservation compliance to discourage wetland conversion to cropland (farmdoc daily, October 9, 2025 and October 23, 2025) and 35 years since the 1990 Farm Bill allocated funds for restoration of wetlands under the Wetland Reserve Program.

Today, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) announced continued support for the Direct Interstate Retail Exemption for Certain Transactions (DIRECT) Act.