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.

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.