The political flashpoint of foreign ownership of agricultural land isn't going away as more bills are offered in statehouses and governors take executive actions to add reporting requirements, restrictions and bans.

Attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea have the potential to disrupt global trade.

While some farmers are likely to see negative net cash farm incomes this year, many should have cash reserves from strong recent years to help carry them forward, a top ag economist says.

A livestock economist says cattle markets are starting 2024 in a much better position than they were last year.

Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA has lowered its soybean and corn production outlooks.

At least a couple of cuts in the Fed interest rate are likely in 2024, offering short-term support for farmland values; but the astounding growth in land values remains susceptible to a 1980s-like crash as the country's long-term debt problem looms.

Growth Energy, the nation’s largest biofuels trade association, this week filed two petitions for rehearing with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Court’s 2023 decision on small refinery exemptions (SREs) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Iowa’s farmland values rose again, albeit at a slower pace than the last two years.

Farmers believe the nation is on the wrong track, and a strong plurality support electing Donald Trump to another term as president, according to a poll commissioned by Agri-Pulse of producers across the country.

Congress is working out the details of a new budget after an agreement was reached on a $1.6 trillion funding limit over the weekend and an agricultural lobbyist says the work will take priority over advancing a new farm bill.

Nearly 70 groups will receive $203 million in fiscal 2024 grants awarded through USDA's Market Access and Foreign Market Development programs.

A huge winter storm is moving across the United States early this week for both the central and eastern part of the country.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor will lead the agribusiness trade mission to New Delhi, India, from April 22-25, 2024. USDA is now accepting applications from U.S. exporters who wish to join this delegation.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig released a statement Monday after the 8th Circuit Court unanimously overruled the District Court and upheld Iowa’s 2019 and 2021 agriculture trespass laws as constitutional.

Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Jan. 7.

The USDA’s Foreign Ag Service has lowered its estimate for Brazil’s soybean crop.

Despite a looming government shutdown amid talks to secure another continuing resolution, as well as upcoming elections, Congress needs to make sure it passes a farm bill this year, says the leader of the nation’s largest farm organization.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) last week announced up to $3 million is available for cooperative agreements to educate underserved, small-scale and organic producers on risk management and climate-smart practices.

With the growing public interest in monounsaturated fatty acids, the pork industry is looking at how it can enhance meat quality.

An ag economist says farmers are cautiously optimistic about where farmland values are headed according to the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.

Ethanol, trade and America's relationship with China are a few of the topics Republican presidential candidates have been talking with Iowans about as they barnstorm the state in preparation for the state’s Jan. 15 caucuses.

December turned out to be a really warm month for most of the United States and Canada.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) Rural Finance Authority (RFA) is now accepting applications for the 2024 Beginning Farmer Tax Credit, an annual program available to landlords and sellers (asset owners) who rent or sell farmland, equipment, livestock, and other agricultural assets to beginning farmers.

To present the 2023/24 Corn Harvest Quality Report, discuss opportunities for sorghum and break down barriers to defend the market share of these coarse grain commodities in China, the U.S. Grains Council (USGC’s) office in Beijing recently conducted a corn quality roadshow and seminar in Beijing and Guangdong Province.

A meteorologist says several storm systems are lined up and likely to bring significant snowfall to much of the U.S.

A small group of Missouri and Arkansas poultry farmers are suing Tyson Foods for closing a broiler operation in Dexter, Missouri, that left the farmers with debts on their chicken-raising facilities but no contracts to continue raising chickens for Tyson.

Dairy Farmers of America, the largest milk marketing cooperative, made the first purchase of verified carbon credits within the livestock value chain from one of its Texas dairy farmer owners and represents the first transaction of the carbon insetting marketplace.

A new executive order requires Missouri landowners to alert the Missouri Department of Agriculture anytime they plan to sell farmland to a foreign individual or company.