Congressman Max Miller (OH-07) on Tuesday introduced the bipartisan Farm to Fly Act to create new, robust markets for American agricultural products and to strengthen domestic energy resources.

The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer rose 4 points in October to a reading of 110. The modest improvement in farmer sentiment resulted from farmers’ improved perspective on current conditions on their farms as well as their expectations for the future.

The U.S. harvest pace remains ahead of normal but trails 2022.

Agricultural bankers are a little less concerned about inflation this year but are more uneasy about farmers' liquidity and income.

The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program serves only half of eligible participants, and USDA and WIC supporters want to see the program continue to expand to reach all those who qualify.

It’s little wonder that so much of the early research into space exploration would orbit around escaping gravity’s grip, or that the source of that escape, the rocket, would occupy so many minds with the cosmic ambition to match their intellect.

House Ag Committee Ranking Member David Scott has called on Congress to extend the 2018 Farm Bill for one year.

Iowa congresswoman Ashley Hinson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture subcommittee, defended her vote against the ag appropriations bill in September, saying it "really made cuts that would undermine rural America."

Six students from around the country will spend the next year sharing their passion for agriculture and the FFA.

The Swine Health Information Center Board of Directors has selected Lisa Becton, DVM, MS, DACVPM as the organization’s next associate director. Becton will begin her tenure with SHIC in January 2024.

Funding is now available from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Indiana to help Western Lake Erie Basin producers implement conservation practices on their land. This funding is provided through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) and will assist farmers in implementing practices designed to keep nutrients on fields and improve their watershed.

In a major victory for grower groups, a federal appeals court vacated EPA regulations banning the use of chlorpyrifos, which should allow the insecticide to continue to be used in agriculture.

The U.S. Department of Commerce Thursday announced it was lowering duties placed on phosphate fertilizers imported from Morocco from 19.97% to 2.12%.

On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack addressed students, agricultural educators, and guests at the opening session of the 96th National FFA Convention and Expo before signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the organization formalizing a partnership to prepare more students for careers in food, agricultural science, natural resources, and related fields.

For decades, grain movement on the Missouri River from Iowa and Nebraska was virtually nil, but that changed somewhat when an Iowa farm cooperative reopened a port in Blencoe, Iowa, in 2021.

The USDA’s reporting a mixed export sales for the major commodities during the week ending October 26th. Sorghum and upland cotton both notched new marketing year highs, with China leading the way for both, while pork, rice, and soybean oil also saw solid week-to-week improvements.

President Biden suggests unprecedented federal investments will reinvigorate rural America.

The question for interest rates is no longer how high they'll go but how long they'll linger around current high levels before coming down.

Summit Carbon Solutions is prepared to capitalize on Navigator CO2’s decision not to proceed with its plan to build a 1,300-mile pipeline that would transport liquid carbon dioxide for sequestration, Summit's CEO tells Agri-Pulse.

Due to a late harvest and adverse weather conditions, the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) is extending the 2023 H2Ohio program deadline for planting overwintering cover crops.

The Iowa Pork Producers Association’s viral “Purchase Moore Hamann Bacon” marketing initiative with Iowa State University football players is adding a new element: linebacker Alec Cook.

Today, President Biden will travel to Northfield, Minnesota to visit Dutch Creek Farms to lead his Administration’s Investing in Rural America Event Series and highlight investments from the Biden Administration in Rural America.

Nearly 70,000 members of the National FFA Organization are in Indianapolis this week for the 96th Annual Convention.

The average daily close of the December corn futures contract was $4.88 during October, while the November soybean contract was $12.84 per bushel.

Lawmakers are looking at boosting subsidies for supplemental, area-based crop insurance policies to induce growers to buy higher levels of coverage, which could potentially reduce the demand from farm groups for ad hoc disaster assistance.

Some cattle producers are already looking at ways to extend their feed resources because of the lack of moisture that may have cut those supplies short, said the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has apparently sold President Joe Biden on his whiteboard speech about diversifying farm income and the rural economy.

The 2018 Farm Bill expired on September 30th and an ag economist says the longer the industry goes without a farm bill, the more problematic it becomes.