Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA says soybean production remains on its record track.

Today, the House Agriculture Committee passed their initial reconciliation bill, which contains several NCBA supported provisions that strengthen our defense against foreign animal disease and support producers who have lost cattle due to predator depredation or natural disasters.

“Our industry has been developing the Chinese market since 1982 when the U.S. soy industry opened an international marketing office in Beijing. To put that in perspective, that’s four years before I was born.” So began the testimony of Caleb Ragland, American Soybean Association president and soybean farmer from Magnolia, Kentucky, before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in a hearing on Trade in Critical Supply Chains.

The 2025 survey of cash rental rates for Iowa farmland shows that rates decreased, on average, by 2.9% in 2025 to $271 per acre. This is the first decline in cash rents since 2019, after a peak of $279 per acre the previous two years of the survey.

The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee says reconciliation, by nature, is a partisan process, and it makes getting a 5-year farm bill completed more difficult.

A scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate.

Growth Energy, the nation’s leading biofuel trade association, welcomed reports that the proposal released today by the House Ways and Means Committee included an extension of the 45Z clean fuel production tax credit, an incentive that would spur innovation in American biofuels and unlock billions in new investments across rural America.

Like many farmers in north-central and northwest Kansas this past fall, Chris Tanner of Norton, Kansas, was optimistic about his hard red winter wheat crop going into winter dormancy.

Farm sector production expenses are the costs of all inputs used to produce farm commodities which directly affect farm profitability.

Farmers would see an expanded safety net under a package of provisions released late Monday by the House Agriculture Committee.

National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) President Duane Stateler, a pork producer from McComb, Ohio, released the following statement on the recently released reconciliation package from the House Agriculture Committee.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced several Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) enrollment opportunities for agricultural producers and landowners.

U.S. corn planting has surged past the halfway mark and soybeans are getting close. That followed a generally favorable week of planting conditions in many key U.S. growing areas.

Bayer is reorganizing its Crop Science division's activities in the areas of crop protection production and research and development in Germany.

Soybean futures surged along with U.S. stock indexes after the U.S. and China announced each side would set a 90-day reprieve and drop tariffs to 10% levels as talks continue.

The USDA has suspended imports of live cattle, bison, and horses from Mexico through southern ports of entry due to the continued northward spread of New World Screwworm.

House Agriculture Committee members will have a lengthy markup to find the instructed $230 billion in budget reconciliation savings.

Groups representing farmers across the United States have filed a brief encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case on labeling for glyphosate and other pesticides.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) recently submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the agency to toughen up guidance for fake meat companies that would prevent them from using misleading labels on plant-based products.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will visit the United Kingdom May 12-14. This comes after President Donald J. Trump announced Thursday, on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe, a new trade agreement in principle that will lower tariffs, remove trade barriers, increase market access, and strengthen cooperation on economic security.

On Monday, May 12, USDA will release its May edition of the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, taking another crack at old-crop demand estimates while simultaneously flipping the script to 2025-26 with new-crop forecasts.

The president of the National Corn Growers Association said Wednesday that his organization fully supports the Trump administration’s effort to forge a new trade relationship with India, and corn growers urge the administration to include corn and corn co-products, such as ethanol and its byproducts, in any final agreement with the South Asian country.

The National Ag Law Center says legislation to regulate cell-cultured proteins has been on the rise at the state level.

Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) and Congressman Zach Nunn (IA-03) on Thursday introduced the Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation and Opportunity Act (Ag BIO Act), a bipartisan bill to support the biofuel economy in Illinois and across the country.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today held the inaugural Farmers First roundtable at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The head lobbyist with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says the U.S. is at a critical point in the fight against New World screwworm.

After a chilly lag in temperatures and heavy rain for some at the end of April, the North-Central United States is in the midst of a wide-open planting window where warm weather and little precipitation should have farmers out and about.

Exports of U.S. beef, pork and lamb trended higher year-over-year in March, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).