U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says it’s too soon to predict the impacts of an anticipated multi-year downturn in the ag economy.

Tyson Foods downsizes operations in Georgia while Smithfield Foods advanced plans for public stock trading in the United States.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced that USDA is awarding a record-breaking $14.3 million in Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grants to 154 projects in 43 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. These investments will help 1.9 million children eat more tasty, nutritious foods in school, while supporting farmers and producers in their local and regional communities.

The USDA’s national corn and soybean condition ratings held steady over the past week. While there are areas of concern, overall, crop development weather is mostly favorable in much of the Midwest and Plains.

The National Corn Growers Association, joined by five other commodity groups, sent a letter to Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo asking her to consider the impacts on farmers as she reviews a petition by the agricultural chemical company Corteva that would place duties on imports of the herbicide 2,4-D.

On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is putting protections in place sooner for farmworkers, their families, and the general public near where pesticides are applied. EPA will now assess the potential for people to be exposed to a pesticide when it drifts away from where it is applied earlier in the agency’s review process.

Donald Trump picked as his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, a populist firebrand whose views align with Trump's protectionist "America First" trade and economic policies, and delegates to the Republican National Convention quickly ratified the choice by acclamation on Monday.

A pair of Missouri's top political leaders are going after Tyson Foods, alleging the meatpacking giant deceived Missouri farmers when Tyson closed a poultry-processing plant in Dexter, Missouri, last year.

The USDA has faced increased scrutiny about the ag trade deficit.

Quint Pottinger's farmstead has a bird's-eye view of the rolling hills of central Kentucky.

The Agriculture Department raised its estimate for corn production to 15.1 billion bushels, a jump from its June projection of 14.8 billion, but slightly lowered its prediction for ending stocks, in its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report issued Friday.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) recently filed a lawsuit against the misguided Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Conservation and Landscape Health” rule. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming and seeks to overturn the rule which threatens generations of family ranching operations in the U.S. by undermining the long-held balance of multiple-use management.

Corn growers were responsible for a $151 billion boost to the U.S. economy in 2023, according to a new report released by the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA).

Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA has raised its second corn crop production projection.

Rural America is learning the hard way that more investment is needed to protect rural infrastructure from catastrophic storms.

The Senate Committee on Appropriations Thursday approved the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing support for critical agriculture, rural development, nutrition, conservation, and food and drug safety programs.

USDA is spending $110 million to expand meat processing through more than 50 grants for projects in 30 states, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday.

Earlier this week, grassroots members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) concluded a successful Summer Business Meeting in San Diego, CA. Cattle producers discussed top issues facing the cattle industry including risk management, taxes, and business regulation.

USDA says there’s plenty of old crop corn, soybeans and wheat in grain bins that haven’t been marketed and a market analyst says it’s expected to stay that way until commodity prices improve.

Friday's July 12 USDA reports will update balance sheets with new estimates from the June 28 Acreage and Grain Stocks reports, including estimates of ground that was not planted at the time of the June survey. Traders have likely lost interest by now but will check to see if USDA is willing to budge on its South American production estimates.

Today, a bipartisan group of 37 U.S. House members, led by Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Angie Craig (D-MN), sent a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan encouraging him to support biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels volumes that fully account for availability and production capacity. Clean Fuels applauded the letter and thanked all of the Representatives who led and signed.

NFU Vice President Jeff Kippley represented family farmers and ranchers Wednesday at a House Agriculture Committee hearing. “Examining the Consequences of EPA’s Actions on American Agriculture” provided a platform for discussing various concerns related to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulations and their impact on the agricultural sector.

U.S. pork industry players are voicing their frustrations with accessing the South African market as lawmakers works to renew a bill providing countries in sub-Saharan African with duty-free access to U.S. markets.

The U.S. EPA has announced it expects to finalize biofuel blending volumes for 2026-2028 late next year.

The value of U.S. beef exports topped $900 million in May, the highest since June 2023, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). Pork exports posted another solid performance in May, but were below last year in both volume and value.

According to Farmers National Company, the agricultural land market has been “nothing short of exceptional during the past five years.”

The Agriculture Department is taking a deliberate approach to the question of whether cows should be inoculated against avian flu, even as some vaccine developers report substantial demand for a vaccine from dairy farmers worried about lost milk production.

It will take time to assess all the agricultural damage in Texas and other states from Hurricane Beryl and its remnants, but at least some grain infrastructure was knocked out by winds that reached 95 miles per hour in some areas.