Jacob Massey, from Petersburg, Tenn., was named champion at the 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC). The championship, now in its 59th year, was held at Arcadia Stockyard in Arcadia, Fla., and presented by the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA).

EPA will have one more week to finalize a multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard proposal after Growth Energy agreed to a stipulation in a previous consent decree hammered out in court with the agency.

A U.S. Senator is becoming more skeptical about an on-time farm bill.

Two tax breaks that are widely used in agriculture are at stake as Republicans and Democrats renew what is likely to be a multi-year battle over tax policy.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it is implementing a multi-step effort aimed at strengthening the substantiation of animal-raising claims.

Scam artists are taking advantage of Missouri’s drought conditions and farmers. The Missouri Department of Agriculture says it has received reports from producers who paid for hay upfront through a wire transfer, only to have no hay delivered.

Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) (“Bunge”) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Viterra Limited, a private company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of Jersey (“Viterra”), together with certain affiliates of Glencore PLC (LSE: GLEN) (“Glencore”), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPP Investments”) and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (“BCI”), to merge with Viterra in a stock and cash transaction.

Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA has increased its already record large corn and soybean production projections.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting more than 1 million acres in this year’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) General signup. This is one of several signups that USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is holding for the program.

Despite a significant loss in the Supreme Court that likely will require the EPA to rewrite the Biden administration's waters of the U.S. rule, the agency on Monday filed an appeal seeking review of a preliminary injunction against the rule in 24 states.

USDA is distributing almost $714 million for broadband connectivity projects through the fourth round of the ReConnect Program, an announcement that will direct loan and grant funding to 33 projects across the country.

House Republicans proposed a tax package Friday that would impose a new excise tax of up to 60% on purchases of U.S. farmland by China and other “countries of concern."

The U.S. Dairy Export Council says the volume of exports in April had its largest month-to-month decline in four years with weakness in nearly all categories.

After a relatively quiet start to the 2023 growing season, the first full week of June brought about a flurry of pest infestations and diseases.

A survey of U.S. ethanol producers shows the industry to be on track toward its net-zero-carbon goal, a new white paper and presentation indicate, with facilities producing ethanol that is up to 55 percent less carbon intensive than gasoline, on average.

U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce, alongside Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MS), the Community College Agriculture Advancement Act, which would equip community and technical colleges with the resources they need to expand agriculture education for their students and the next generation of farmers.

Japanese consumers are seeking high-quality agricultural products, and more than 40 U.S. agricultural businesses and 11 state departments of agriculture had the opportunity to build key relationships during a USDA agricultural trade mission this week. Speaking to reporters Thursday morning upon returning, USDA Undersecretary for Trade Alexis Taylor said Japan is an “old and consistent and reliable trading partner” as the country has imported more than $10 billion worth of U.S. food and agricultural exports in each of the past 20 years, including last year’s record $14.6 billion.

More than 70 biofuel stakeholders are calling on the Biden administration to increase biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels volumes as the EPA is expected to finalize Renewable Fuel Standard volumes next week.

A full 84% of Iowa farm ground is owned debt-free, and increasingly owned by baby boomers, many of whom are non-farmers who like fixed cash-rent contracts and are highly unlikely to sell their ground to someone outside the family. Those are a few takeaways from the Iowa Farmland and Ownership Tenure Survey, which took a 40-year look at Iowa land ownership from 1982 to 2022.

With turning the calendar to June, now is the time to be seeding warm-season annual forages like sorghum, sorghum-sudangrass, sudangrass, millets, and teff.

Ethanol has been providing savings for years, but even more so this summer as the availability of lower-cost E15 and E85 grows.

As hog producers and the pork industry gathered for the 35th World Pork Expo, leaders of the National Pork Producers Council were still trying to come to terms with the U.S. Supreme Court decision on California's Proposition 12.

Researchers continue to work to reduce the impact of both SCN and SDS — and some are digging deeper into the relationship between them.

Proposals are being sought that support biotechnology innovation and commercialization, promote the creation of bioscience jobs in the state, and promote bioscience research and development in North Dakota.

A new coalition will focus on carbon capture and its effect on agriculture. Former House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson is a senior advisor for the American Carbon Alliance. He tells Brownfield the goal of the coalition is to educate, because two new carbon sequestration tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act is making carbon profitable on the farm.

Senators were warned Wednesday that the EPA’s new regulations for plant-incorporated protectants will slow the breeding of new fruit and vegetable varieties that are more resistant to pests and diseases.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says the ag industry is facing several national security threats and the fallout could be catastrophic.

Calving season can be an exhausting time on the ranch, especially when cows experience difficulty giving birth, say the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute.