Farmers would have a harder time getting Conservation Technical Assistance under USDA's 2026 budget proposal, which would slash free, voluntary expert guidance by USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff.

Legislation that would bring whole milk and 2% milk back to school meal programs easily passed the Senate Ag Committee with bipartisan support.

Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud, announced United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr.

Influenza A(H5N1) viruses have been detected in US dairy cow herds since 2024. We assessed the pathogenesis, transmission, and airborne release of A/Michigan/90/2024, an H5N1 isolate from a dairy farm worker in Michigan, in the ferret model. Results show this virus caused airborne transmission with moderate pathogenicity, including limited extrapulmonary spread, without lethality.

Farmer sentiment in May climbed to its highest level since May 2021 as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer index reached 158, 10 points higher than in April.

The 2025 wildfire season in Canada is off to an explosive start after a very warm and dry winter and spring. Published reports as of late Sunday, June 1 show more than 170 active wildfires in Canada, mainly in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

At a time when so many farmers and ranchers are facing razor-thin margins at best and considerable losses at worst, congressional action – or inaction – on tax policy will be a make or break in farm country.

Good scouting is the best way to identify tar spot in corn, says University of Missouri Extension state plant pathologist Mandy Bish.

The president and CEO of R-CALF USA is requesting a federal investigation into a suspected false report that New World screwworm was detected in the U.S.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza reached Antarctica’s mainland in early 2024, leaving Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island nations as the only regions on Earth that remain free from the H5N1 strain.

The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a rare G4 severe geomagnetic storm alert for June 1-2, after the storm strengthened and reached G4 conditions.

Senate Republicans will spend the coming weeks trying to agree on changes to President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. We asked Clinton and George W. Bush administration ag secretaries, Dan Glickman and Mike Johanns, about how reconciliation elements may change in the Senate and the fate of the traditional rural-urban farm bill coalition

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is partnering with the Farm Credit Council for the launch of a new mentorship program called On Deck. The program connects seasoned grower leaders with young and beginning agriculturalists to build NCGA’s roster of champions.

The CEO of CoverCress says work continues to develop future markets for the company’s commercialized version of pennycress.

Long-awaited changes to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders are in effect as of June 1.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the release of Congressionally mandated Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) payments to cover grazing losses due to eligible drought or wildfire events in 2023 and/or 2024.

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2023 reclassification of some H-2A workers’ job titles continues to push wages higher, with another increase on the way this year per the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) 2024 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), which was released in April.

A U.S. District Judge in Iowa has upheld the 40-year-old conservation compliance provision known as "swampbuster" in a ruling handed down Thursday, but lawyers for the Iowa landowner in the case have vowed to appeal the decision.

A market analyst says active trade negotiations could weigh on U.S. cotton and rice prices in the next few months.

The lag in corn planting progress this year has prompted increasing interest in evaluating the Prevented Planting option available through multi-peril crop insurance. The purpose of this article is to walk through the options, mechanics, and economics of electing prevented planting for your corn crop utilizing 2025 values.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled late Wednesday that President Donald Trump does not have the authority under economic emergency legislation to impose sweeping global tariffs.

365 agricultural and related groups have sent a letter calling on Congress to enact the Agricultural Labeling Uniformity Act, a bipartisan bill the groups say is needed to protect access for farmers and the public to safe, well-regulated pesticides.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the New World Screwworm (NWS).

A mix of weather patterns across the US Corn Belt is impacting planting progress and early crop development.

Being a 21st-century dairy farmer is no small task. Rising labor shortages, growing herd sizes, and the ever-present need to maintain animal health while keeping operations efficient leave little room for error. But Minnesota farmers have an advantage: homegrown research designed to meet their challenges head-on.

U.S. corn and soybean planting continues to near the finish line. That followed another week of generally favorable planting weather in much of the Midwest and Plains, but some key states are behind average due to heavy rainfall.

Farmers in most of the larger corn-producing states in the Midwest and Plains states appear on schedule to meet their crop insurance final planting dates to protect their coverage levels.

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) concluded its Spring Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday with a panel discussion in which senior international staff gave examples of innovative efforts to overcome trade challenges.