A new podcast, produced by Justin Glisan, Iowa’s state climatologist, and Dan Fillius, field specialist for horticulture and commercial vegetables with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, provides insight into weather patterns and their impacts on specialty crop growers throughout the state.

While the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling in Sackett v EPA may continue to unfold for years to come, one thing in the near term is clear: the Biden administration may have no choice but to pull its recently finalized waters of the U.S. rule.

Critics of commodity checkoffs are making a fresh run at imposing new restrictions on the programs, including a prohibition on contracting research and promotion work out to organizations that lobby Congress or federal agencies. The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act, which was debated during consideration of the 2018 farm bill and reintroduced since then, is sponsored by an unlikely assortment of lawmakers from both ends of the political spectrum. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Cory Booker, D-N.J., are leading the push in the Senate, while Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and Dina Titus, D-Nev., have proposed the bill in the House.

Purdue University researchers have improved upon traditional solar energy structures used in agrivoltaic farming, a sustainable system that generates electricity from the sun while row crops like corn, rice, soybeans and wheat concurrently grow on the same land.

The development of future phosphate production at the Caldwell Canyon Mine in southeast Idaho was stopped in its tracks by a federal judge Friday, who vacated a number of permits and other approvals for Bayer AG to mine a nutrient it uses to produce glyphosate-based products including Roundup.

According to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, a farmer is 800% more likely to die while working than people in other jobs. About one-third of all farm accidents involve children.

Mexico says it will defend its position on the country’s policies to limit the use of biotech corn after the U.S. requested dispute settlement consultations. Ryan LeGrand with the US Grains Councils says it is Mexico’s obligation under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to provide science and risk-based analysis behind its decision and Friday’s announcement by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is the next step in the process.

The U.S. aims to wrap up negotiations on the 14-nation Indo-Pacific Economic Framework this year, but not before key provisions on sustainability are added to the agriculture chapter of the deal, Chief U.S. Agriculture Negotiator Doug McKalip said Monday. Due to the benefits of the agreement, "We want to get it on the books as quickly as we can,” McKalip said in a speech at the Agri-Pulse Food and Ag Issues Summit West. He reassured Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo this week that the goal is to finish IPEF this year.

Heavy April snow in the Dakotas and northwest Minnesota left farmers wondering if and when they would get in their fields to start spring wheat and other small grains planting -- and if they would get their corn in ahead of the last insurance plant date.

As corn begins to emerge, be alert to the potential for damage from early season insects such as cutworms, wireworms, white grubs or other insects.

The Indiana Conservation Partnership (ICP) announced its 2022 conservation accomplishments.

The United States Trade Representative has filed a formal dispute settlement with Mexico over its ban of biotech corn for human consumption and animal feed. National Corn Growers Association President Tom Haag tells Brownfield the filing that’s made possible under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is long overdue.

There has been a steep drop-off in detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) across the country compared to last year's peaks, but USDA officials and poultry industry groups have no plans to relax precautions.

Environmental groups asked a federal court on Wednesday to force the EPA to close what they say is a loophole in agency regulation that allows seeds treated with pesticides to go unregulated. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California.

A bill that will suspend the debt ceiling, impose caps on federal spending and make major changes to work requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program got final approval from the Senate late Thursday, clearing the measure for President Joe Biden's signature in time to avert a government default.

A bipartisan group of US Representatives is asking the Biden administration to address Brazil’s unfair trading policies impacting American ethanol.

Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) Director Jerry Costello II highlighted the availability of mental health resources through the Farm Family Resource Initiative (FFRI) on Tuesday.

For some, cheese day is every day, but since 1914, June 4 is officially known as cheese day in the United States.

The cost of grain storage at elevators is expected to hit records this year, and that could translate into lower cash grain bids and wider basis levels, according to a recent report from CoBank's Knowledge Exchange.

The GOP-controlled House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday evening to avert a first-ever government default, impose caps on federal spending and make the first major changes to SNAP work requirements in decades.

Disagreements between Russia and Ukraine over agriculture exports have put the future of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in jeopardy once again.

Corn growers seeking to increase the amount of nitrogen taken up by their crop can adjust many aspects of fertilizer application, but recent studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign show those tweaks don’t do much to improve uptake efficiency from fertilizer.

A Midwestern state legislature has passed a law requiring that gas stations must offer 15 percent blended ethanol fuel.

Farm programs would come out of the debt-ceiling debate largely unscathed as lawmakers gnash their teeth over a compromise spending and debt-limit bill that needs to clear both chambers by June 5.

Representatives of major pesticide and biotech seed companies gathered earlier this month in Mexico City to meet with Mexican ag groups and U.S. and Canadian government officials to flesh out concerns about the potential impacts of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign against genetically modified corn and glyphosate, according to sources with knowledge of the meetings in Mexico.

Meteorologist Greg Soulje says the dry spell isn’t over yet for most of the corn belt, but he’s seeing some relief later in June.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor will lead the upcoming agricultural trade mission to Japan, June 5-8.

The USDA says warm, dry weather in most of the Midwest allowed farmers to make good corn and soybean planting progress last week.