Members of the U.S. House have been dismissed for the August recess a week early without passing 12 annual funding bills including USDA’s budget or taking further action on the farm bill.

The Biden administration should set fair and reasonable criteria around farming practices for farmers and refineries seeking tax credits for sustainable aviation fuels, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) said in comments submitted last week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

U.S. Reps. Elissa Slotkin (MI-07) and David Valadao (R-CA) on Friday introduced new legislation to address the ongoing detections of highly pathogenic avian flu in dairy cattle.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its draft Insecticide Strategy for public comment, another milestone in the agency’s work to adopt early, practical protections for federally endangered and threatened (listed) species.

Reducing its workforce by perhaps more than 2,000 employees in the past several months, Deere & Company is responding both to economics and to a vision for what it is becoming -- a manufacturer of machinery still, but one that foresees higher value in technology.

House Ag Committee leaders heard strong support for reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of a subcommittee hearing Thursday.

AGCO has agreed to sell most of its grain and protein business for $700 million to American Industrial Partners, an industrials investor worth $16 billion, in an all-cash transaction.

Insignum AgTech has begun a collaboration with researchers in Purdue University’s College of Agriculture and College of Engineering to create tools for farmers to identify early stages of tar spot disease outbreaks in their corn plants.

The latest Rural Mainstreet Index has declined for an eleventh consecutive month.

Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to agriculture in her home state of California, the nation’s No. 1 state by far in agricultural production.

Progress fighting global hunger has been set back 15 years, leaving around 733 million people going hungry in 2023, equivalent to one in 11 people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published on Wednesday.

On the afternoon of July 15, 2024, a severe windstorm developed in eastern Iowa that moved through northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and northern Indiana into the early morning hours of July 16. The windstorm was classified as a derecho, or a windstorm that contains constant severe wind gusts along its path of at least 240 miles.

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led a bipartisan, bicameral group of 51 of her colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of the Treasury to issue timely guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit to give farmers, blenders, retailers, and fuel users certainty and the time needed to make additional clean fuel projects a reality.

A panel of farmers, retailers and lenders on Tuesday urged lawmakers to pass a new farm bill by the end of this year, saying the legislation would help offset the falling crop prices, high production costs and rising interest rates producers are expected to see in the year ahead.

The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a G2 geomagnetic storm watch for July 24. A solar storm of this intensity may affect high-frequency radio, but only at higher latitudes.

The president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives says recent changes in the upcoming presidential election and other politics have Congress in observation mode instead of completing a new farm bill.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Tuesday confirmed that efforts to prevent ultra-processed, lab-grown protein from showing up in the diet of the American armed forces were successful, following news that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is not pursuing lab-grown protein projects for human consumption.

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) released a new economic contribution report detailing the significant impact America’s pig farmers have on the United States’ agricultural and overall economy. The report highlights the pork industry’s value chain contributions and trends in production and industry structure.

More than 500 national, state and local organizations are urging congressional leaders to find a way to pass a farm bill yet this year, despite the lack of legislative time left in this Congress.

The U.S. corn condition rating dipped a little over the past week, while soybeans held steady.

More than 300 agricultural groups, including the American Soybean Association and American Sugarbeet Growers Association, have called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to work with stakeholders to reform its Endangered Species Act processes for pesticides.

History repeats itself, not least in agricultural cycles. As the US farm economy transitions from a period of historically strong balance sheets to a period of negative margins, the 2012/13 commodity market downturn offers useful lessons in how row crop growers will navigate lower agri commodity prices today.

Massachusetts' animal welfare law was allowed to stand on Monday after a federal court ruled the Federal Meat Inspection Act does not preempt the Massachusetts Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act created as a result of a ballot initiative passed by voters.

Production capacity of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the United States could increase from around 2,000 barrels per day (b/d) to nearly 30,000 b/d in 2024 if all announced capacity additions come on line.

The USDA says old crop cotton export sales hit a marketing year low during the week ending July 11th.

The Agriculture Department will be awarding $90 million for 53 projects aimed at developing new technologies and approaches for conservation efforts, Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday.

Excess moisture in the Midwest and across the country has made it difficult to get hay made properly.

Farmland values have stabilized in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming, the five states served by Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) and Frontier Farm Credit.