House Republicans who have been struggling unsuccessfully for years to tighten work rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program scored a win in the debt limit negotiations that would expand the requirements to people in their early 50s, but President Joe Biden also won key new exemptions for veterans and people who are homeless.

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) Spring Conference concluded Friday in Minneapolis with insights from former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson on how to make international trade a higher priority in the next Farm Bill.

An agronomist says this coming week could be the last opportunity for Illinois soybean farmers to apply dicamba this season.

While the Bipartisan Rail Safety Act has yet to be made into law, some states are enacting their own safety laws, one of them being the two-person crew requirement that unions fought for, but did not get, in the recent 2023 negotiations.

Regardless of your choice of livestock fly control product and application method, plan for resistance.

The Supreme Court sided with two Idaho property owners in their ongoing wetlands dispute with EPA on Thursday, ruling EPA's use of the significant nexus test when making Clean Water Act determinations is too broad.

A trio of Midwestern governors is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to substantially increase blending requirements for biodiesel and renewable diesel.

An EPA rule regulating plant-incorporated protectants received swift criticism Thursday from groups representing the seed industry and soybean growers, who said it would hamper innovation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $8 million in four partnerships to support and expand measurement and monitoring of carbon in soil on working agricultural lands and to assess how climate-smart practices are affecting carbon sequestration.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa State University and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the three principals of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, jointly announced that the online dashboards that report the results of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy have been updated to reflect the latest reporting period.

Rising interest rates and the increased cost of capital means farmers may have to take a different approach to 2024 production expenses.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) officials celebrated the dedication and ribbon-cutting of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF).

The average cash rental rate for Iowa farmland climbed 9% in 2023 to $279 per acre, according to an annual survey conducted by Iowa State University Extension.

Farmers adopting cover crops through Farmers for Soil Health can look forward to enhanced technical assistance.

Shifts in cattle, pork and poultry markets may result in tough times ahead for processors, with meat giant Tyson Foods already reporting losses.

Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow says it would be a disaster for the ag industry if the U.S. were to default on its debt.

The chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service expressed confidence that the agency could hire the staff it needs to handle a sharp increase in climate-related funding, despite many applicants for soil conservationist positions lacking a key job requirement – a class in soil science.

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell joined officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack and the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (UK-CAFE) in a groundbreaking ceremony for a new $65.9 million Forage Animal Production Lab on UK’s campus.

Congress on Tuesday voted to overturn a new Biden administration rule setting tougher emission standards for heavy-duty trucks that would affect the costs of trucks for farmers and other industries.

There have been some reports of corn seedling burn with anhydrous ammonia application in the state.

Cargill is leveraging its unique position in the supply chain to pioneer its award-winning regenerative agriculture program in Europe. Building on two years of success in North America, Cargill RegenConnect™ will also expand from 15 to 24 states.

Long before the days of "climate-smart agriculture," farmer Dave Brandt was a no-till pioneer who reached stardom among his fellow farmers for his cropping practices and folksy way of explaining his 50-plus years of farming just outside of Carroll, Ohio.

U.S. corn and soybean planting and development remain ahead of average.

In a preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found that lab-grown or “cultivated” meat’s environmental impact is likely to be “orders of magnitude” higher than retail beef based on current and near-term production methods.

Areas within USDA’s Rural Partners Network are set to benefit from a wide array of federal programs as the department rolls out almost $400 million to address longstanding poverty in the regions.

The House Ag Appropriations Subcommittee has advanced a spending bill that proposes slashing USDA’s budget by nearly $9 billion.

Dan Glickman, the secretary of agriculture during the major crop insurance overhaul in 2000, says crop insurance should be the preferred method of risk management rather than a permanent disaster program.

A five-year-old or older beef cow from Tennessee sent for slaughter at a South Carolina processing plant has tested positive for an atypical case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).