Missouri’s farmers and ranchers say they are grateful for any rain, but it will take decent amount to regrow pasture, produce a decent hay crop and fill ponds.

It is unconstitutional for pipeline companies to enter private land to survey without compensating landowners in Iowa, a district judge in the state ruled Wednesday.

Bayer is reorganizing its seed business and streamlining the seed buying experience for its customers.

Meatpacking giant JBS USA is bringing its sanitation work in-house after one of its former contractors, Packers Sanitation Services Inc., was fined by the Labor Department for child labor violations.

The Feeding the Economy Report, released on National Ag Day, was updated this week to include county-level data, showing the economic impact of local agriculture on communities across the U.S.

An ag economist says the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates a quarter percentage point won’t have an immediate impact on many farmers and ranchers.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, alongside U.S. Senators Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, introduced legislation to address the shortage of Technical Service Providers (TSPs) who help producers access USDA conservation programs through one-on-one assistance.

The Iowa Legislature is marking the 10-year anniversary of the state's voluntary nutrient reduction strategy by eliminating state funding for the water testing sensors that validate the state's efforts to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus in streams and rivers.

USDA unveiled 12 new Regional Food Business Centers Wednesday, funded with $400 million, that will provide technical and financial assistance to strengthen local and regional food systems, along with another $420 million in a new Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program to expand capacity and processing for non-meat and poultry products.

The University of Minnesota announced that it will receive a $20 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to lead a new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

Ag industry leaders are asking Congress to protect the safety net in the 2023 Farm Bill.

Farmer sentiment improved modestly in April as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer reversed a two-month decline up 6 points to a reading of 123.

Most members of the House Agriculture Committee, and many on Senate Ag, face a steep learning curve on farm bill issues, which poses a challenge for ag groups as they try to shape the legislation in coming weeks.

Monday's Crop Progress Report from the USDA was being watched closely for the potential positive impact for winter wheat across the Southern Plains. Unfortunately, the heavy rain that did fall in the region had little impact on wheat conditions in the region.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) has announced the return of poultry shows for the 2023 fair season. The influx of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases forced the cancellation of in-person junior and open poultry shows at Illinois county fairs and the Illinois State Fair in 2022, with only virtual poultry shows being held.

Visiting with agricultural producers and touring research sites in Kansas on April 28, Sen. John Boozman, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, agreed that it's going to be complicated for Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion farm bill when Republican colleagues in the House just passed a debt bill meant to cut spending by $4.8 trillion.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that nearly $130 million in additional, automatic financial assistance has been obligated for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk.

The National Milk Producers Federation on Monday petitioned USDA on Monday to consider a comprehensive proposal to overhaul the way milk is priced under federal milk marketing orders.

As soil temperatures warm and planting continues, landowners across the state are faced with decisions as critical and multi-faceted as the land itself. While Iowa’s topography may not be as dynamic as in some states, even minute differences throughout a field can be augmented by the flow of water and wind. According to Lee Burras and Bradley Miller, agronomists at Iowa State University, advances in geospatial technology coupled with more traditional farming knowledge have allowed researchers and landowners to understand the land more intimately than ever before.

U.S. soybean planting made a big jump over the past week.

An ag meteorologist says May will start out cool and wet for much of the Corn Belt.

May is Mental Health Month and the American Farm Bureau Federation is encouraging all farmers and ranchers to reach out to their neighbors.

Alfalfa weevil eggs have started hatching in southern Nebraska. As temperatures warm up, expect to see alfalfa weevil larvae throughout southern Nebraska and slightly later, in northern Nebraska.

E15 sales will continue this summer, as the Biden administration granted a waiver Friday to a Clean Air Act provision that shuts off those sales starting on June 1 for summer ozone concerns.

A key House lawmaker defended the tightening of work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as a way to reduce federal spending, in an interview on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to allow E15 gasoline — gasoline blended with 15% ethanol — to be sold during the summer driving season.

For the first time in 34 years, Iowa farmers will begin paying a portion of their grain sales to the state's indemnity fund beginning on July 1.

An ag economist says negotiations to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative have stalled.