U.S. senators on Tuesday reintroduced legislation to allow year-round E15 sales nationally, as the ethanol industry continues to push for those sales to be allowed for the 2023 summer driving season that starts on June 1.

The American poultry sector is awaiting a spring spike in detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza, leading industry and government officials to wonder if the disease has pivoted from an occasional concern to a permanent part of raising birds in the United States.

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the America Works Act, a bill to reform work requirements for able-bodied Americans receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

Russia and Ukraine began negotiations Monday to extend an agreement to export grain out of the Black Sea.

On Friday, March 10, the Silicon Valley Bank with 17 branches in California and Massachusetts became the first bank failure since the Federal Reserve started its campaign to bring down inflation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking for public input on two water quality conservation initiatives, the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) and the National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI).

Supermarket prices rose another 0.3% last month, driven in part by jumps in the cost of beef and pork, but food inflation continues to ease from the spikes shoppers saw in 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

The president of the National Corn Growers Association says he’s glad the U.S. is in consultations with Mexico on the GMO corn ban.

Farmers in nine states who lost grain bins or handling equipment due to storms could be eligible for assistance from USDA’s Farm Service Agency.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday used the Commodity Classic show to sign a pair of agreements with farm groups to boost soil-health practices under USDA's Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities.

The deadline for farmers to lock in their crop insurance choices is just around the corner.

Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today renewed their effort to support the Beagle Brigade, canine detection units – made up mostly of beagles – used at airports and ports of entry.

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture says while it wants to see a strong commodity title in the farm bill, it is focusing its efforts on ag research, cybersecurity and trade.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the Department received $3 billion in applications from more than 350 independent businesses from 47 states and 2 territories for the first two rounds of a new grant program to add innovative domestic fertilizer production capacity.

Farm programs are left unscathed from budget cuts under President Joe Biden's fiscal year 2024 budget proposal, but the president's plan calls for increasing corporate taxes and income taxes on higher-income earners to shave the growth of the national debt over the next decade.

The U.S. House has voted to block the Biden administration’s Waters of the U.S. Rule.

An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency is exploring a variety of solutions that would allow E15 sales to take place in 2023 while also advancing a petition to legalize the sales in the Midwest the following year.

Data gathered by NASA shows that weather extremes will worsen over the next decade.

Today, the House Committee on Agriculture convened a business meeting to consider its budget views and estimates letter for the 2024 fiscal year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today an investment of more than $43 million in meat and poultry processing research, innovation and expansion in support of its ongoing efforts to transform the food system at every stage along the supply chain.

As farmers from around the country gather in Orlando for Commodity Classic weather, yields, and cost of production are dominating much of the hallway conversations.

After reaching a right-to-repair deal with John Deere earlier this year, the American Farm Bureau Federation on Thursday announced another memorandum of understanding with CNH Industrial Brands, which includes Case IH and New Holland tractors.

Whether they have planted cover crops or not, all farmers are being encouraged to complete an anonymous survey to provide valuable production insight.

New research from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering into biodegradable sensors may change the way farmers track, measure, and respond in real time to their soil’s microbial activity with big implications for addressing global greenhouse gas emissions.

The USDA has raised the ending stocks projection for U.S. corn, while lowering the carryover guess for soybeans.

On Wednesday, March 8, at 11 a.m. CST, USDA will issue the next World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report.

Attorneys general in two Midwestern States have notified the Environmental Protection Agency of their intent to sue for delaying year-round E15 sales.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor will lead a delegation of 26 agribusinesses and farm organizations to Panama City, Panama, from March 19 to 23.