A landmark alliance is launching free, anonymous, online mental health and wellbeing services to provide a nationwide safety net of confidential and on-demand support to farmers, ranchers and farm families.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday announced a pilot program to allow more cattle producers and meat processors to access better markets through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) official beef quality grading and certification.

Friday's release of the Jan. 1 USDA Cattle on Feed report will continue to be one of the main focuses of the cattle market over the next couple of days.

Ethanol stocks have grown for seven consecutive weeks.

Corn growers are reacting negatively to an International Trade Commission decision that domestic phosphate fertilizer manufacturers were “materially injured” by government-subsidized imports from Morocco and Russia.

Growth Energy, the nation’s largest biofuels trade association, published its 2024 federal policy priorities this week.

The Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) announced Thursday it has a cooperative agreement with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) under the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI). Through this agreement, the two entities are working together to offer over $6.7 million in competitive grant funding for projects designed to build resilience across the middle of the supply chain.

We will see another burst of strength from the polar vortex later this week and weekend, but then see it quickly leave and be replaced by the type of warmth we had seen in December, or at least close to it.

A livestock economist says there’s one area analysts are keeping a close eye on in this week’s Cattle on Feed report from the USDA.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow is circulating some ideas for farm program reforms that include an increase in effective reference prices that would benefit all commodities, plus an unspecified improvement in marketing loans.

Precision Planting this week revealed their newest product, a fully custom, factory-built planting system called CornerStone.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced the launch of the brand-new Choose Iowa Dairy Innovation Grant Program, which has been created to increase on-farm dairy processing, reduce farm labor costs, and expand the availability of Iowa dairy products for consumers.

Farmers could see a greater opportunity to write off larger equipment purchases and buildings under a $78 billion bipartisan tax deal proposed Tuesday by the chairmen of the two major tax-writing committees in Congress.

The GROWMARK and CHS Boards of Directors are pleased to announce that they have jointly agreed to conduct an exploratory process over the coming months to identify opportunities for the two cooperatives to further collaborate to better serve owners, customers and the cooperative system into the future.

Farmers and ranchers would like to see increased crop insurance subsidies and commodity price supports in the new farm bill, and a strong majority support cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, according to an exclusive Agri-Pulse producer poll.

An ag economist says livestock producers could see some relief in 2024.

Satellite-based remote sensing allows us to see much more than we can see when standing on the ground.

Starlink announced a deal with John Deere Tuesday morning in which the world's largest farm machinery manufacturer will begin equipping new and existing machines across the United States and Brazil with Starlink this year.

U.S. farmers produced a record corn crop in 2023.

An Arkansas Republican who's co-leading a House Agriculture Committee working group on farm labor says the ongoing problems at the U.S-Mexico border make it harder for lawmakers to address producers' need for more workers.

Fueled by record performances in Mexico, Central America and Colombia, November exports of U.S. pork reached the highest value since mid-2021, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and former Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill are the recipients of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2024 Distinguished Service Award and Farm Bureau Founders Award, respectively.

Another stopgap bill is expected to avoid a partial government shutdown next week.

Following this week’s announcement of a bipartisan agreement on topline funding levels for fiscal year 2024 appropriations and as negotiations still continue in Congress on a final budget, the Administration believes it is critical that final appropriations bills fully fund WIC, to allow the program to continue to serve all eligible pregnant women, mothers, infants, and children who apply.

Biofuel producers and farmers were caught between two storms at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin accepting applications for the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (Continuous CRP) signup on Jan. 12, 2024.

Grocery prices rose just 0.1% in December for the second month in a row and are up 1.3% year over year as food inflation continues to moderate, according to the latest Consumer Price Index.

A storm system emerging from the western U.S. will cross the southern Plains by Thursday night and reach peak intensity over the eastern Corn Belt on Friday.