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GRAIN elevators and end users are navigating heightened market volatility caused by uncertainty over the size of this fall's corn harvest. After U.S. corn farmers suffered historic planting delays from [...]

THE long-anticipated modernization of swine slaughter inspection was proposed Sept. 17 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For the first time in more than five decades, USDA's Food Safety & [...]

U.S. farmers have enjoyed a competitive advantage accessing the global export market in larger part due to an effective, robust and resilient infrastructure and transportation network. However, underinvestment in the [...]

THE agriculture industry is at high risk from increasingly volatile weather patterns, and although some have pointed to the sector as a source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, many in [...]

TRADE uncertainty has been the main theme for agricultural producers in 2019, and it does not appear to be going away anytime soon. September brought a renewed sense of optimism [...]

AFTER more than four years of litigation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) entered into a consent agreement with Kraft regarding manipulation of the wheat market. Kraft and Mondelez Global [...]

POET, the world's largest biofuel producer, has a network of 28 production facilities across seven states in the U.S. However, the 31 small refinery exemption waivers that the Environmental Protection [...]

WITH the signing of S.B. 1019 in Oregon in August, all West Coast states now have laws in place requiring eggs sold within state borders to come from cage-free facilities. [...]

IN a significant victory for agriculture, the U.S. District Court for Southern Georgia issued an order on Aug. 21 declaring the 2015 waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule illegal, being [...]

TARIFFS have become the negotiating tactic of choice for the Trump Administration, and U.S. farmers are bearing the brunt of retaliatory tariffs placed on their products, according to a new [...]

FARMERS finally received a much-needed trade win at the end of August when an agreement in principle was reached between the U.S. and Japan on agricultural products, industrial goods and [...]

AS discussions between the U.S. and China continue to stall, each country has further raised import tariffs in response, and it appears that the trade war will continue to drag [...]

IN its more than 45-year history, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has catalyzed countless conservation partnerships that have helped recover some of America's most treasured animals and plants, from the [...]

THE U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) introduced new reforms that offer five key revisions to existing Hoursof-Service (HOS) rules, such as requiring a minimum of [...]

GENE EDITING is the biotechnology of the future for bringing new genetics to the market faster. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced rules to help streamline the [...]

According to Vic Miller, a corn farmer from Fayette County, Iowa, 'Agriculture is in one hell of a bad situation right now. The government put us in this situation, and [...]

DESPITE a decline in the number of agricultural cooperatives, the influence co-ops have in rural America is not shrinking. The changing landscape, however, has brought new trends to the picture, [...]

THE U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA) opened enrollment for the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program on June 17 and has started issuing approximately $100 million in payments [...]

AT the beginning of July, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler issued a proposed rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program that sets the minimum amount of renewable fuels [...]

A STABLE labor force remains the one input the livestock industry cannot get a handle on. 'To grow an industry, you need inputs, whether it's fertilizer, feed or whatever. The [...]

THE controversy continues over relocating the U.S. Department of Agriculture's premier agricultural research agencies--the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA)--to the Kansas City [...]

THE August recess started with no action from Congress on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), but agricultural groups continue to make their case for Congress to bring up the crucial trade [...]

THE American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a review of the Environmental Protection Agency's [...]

AFTER months of evaluation and voiced opposition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA) to the [...]

NORTH Carolina environmental and community groups filed a constitutional challenge to state laws limiting nuisance suits against hog operations, contending that these laws violate due process and property rights under [...]

THE North American Meat Institute (NAMI) submitted public comments regarding California's Proposition 12 that call for postponement of the law's implementation so multiple problems affecting consumers and producers may be [...]

FLOODING has occurred along the Missouri River almost every year since 2007. For 100 years, Leo Ettleman of Sidney, Iowa, and his family have farmed the Missouri River bottomland. In [...]

PRESIDENT Donald Trump's negotiating tactic of choice remains tariffs, either through the threat of tariffs or slapping the high taxes on competitors or consumers of goods from those countries. The [...]

AS part of its annual legislative fly-in May 15-16, the United Egg Producers (UEP) joined the agriculture industry's call for accurate food labeling. In speaking with legislators, a new discussion [...]

THE Surface Transportation Board (STB) held a hearing May 22 to hear concerns expressed by users of the freight rail network and other stakeholders about the changes to demurrage and [...]

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue continued moving forward with his plans to relocate the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA) outside [...]

TYSON Foods filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture accusing an inspector of falsifying inspections for more than 4,600 hogs--an action it said forced the company to [...]

THE U.S. Department of Agriculture released details May 23 of another round of trade aid to domestic producers in the face of continued disruptions in trade with China and other [...]

PRESIDENT Donald Trump laid out details of an immigration proposal that puts greater emphasis on granting green cards to more highly skilled workers. However, it fails to address the nearly [...]

MANY in the countryside have been supportive of President Donald Trump's efforts to level the playing field for U.S. producers in global trade. Their patience is wearing thin, however, and [...]

IN an effort to codify an agreement on oversight of lab-grown meat between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Food & Drug Administration, [...]

A WORLD Trade Organization dispute settlement panel found that China has administered its tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, corn and rice inconsistently with its WTO commitments. Contrary to those commitments, [...]

THE latest report from the U.S. Department of Commerce reveals ongoing economic stress for farmers. As such, it may warrant another round of trade aid, according to statements from White [...]

A COALITION of public interest groups has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa that challenges the constitutionality of Iowa's newest 'ag gag' [...]

LIVESTOCK and dairy producers have more tools in their toolbox to protect themselves from risk with several enhancements made to livestock and dairy insurance programs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's [...]

AGRICULTURE secretary Sonny Perdue explained that the newly released 'Census of Agriculture' tells 'the tremendous story of U.S. agriculture and how it is changing.' New trends stand out in this [...]

SINCE the Trump Administration took office, it has engaged in five major trade discussions, and these trading partners are also the U.S.'s five largest agricultural export markets: Canada, China, Mexico, [...]

ON March 19, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias met with President Donald Trump on issues involving agricultural market access, and announcements were made on wheat, [...]

U.S. sales of agricultural tractors and combines remained in the plus column for February, according to the latest sales data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). In addition, there's [...]

THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed regulatory changes March 12 to allow gasoline blended with up to 15% ethanol (E15) to take advantage of the 1 psi Reid vapor pressure [...]

THE U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia agreed with the Organic Trade Assn. (OTA) that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's failure to put new organic livestock standards into [...]

FARMERS have been affected by record flooding in the upper Mississippi River and Missouri River basins, including in Minnesota and Iowa as well as Nebraska. President Donald Trump has already [...]

THE Iowa legislature and governor offered support to protect agricultural production facilities against those using deception to gain access to the facility with passage of the Ag Production Facility Trespass [...]

ON March 8, the federal government withdrew its notices of appeal before the U.S. courts of appeals for the fourth and ninth circuits regarding lower court decisions enjoining and vacating [...]

WEATHER events are inevitable, yet the government's management of the nation's river and dam system by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by prioritizing fish and wildlife preservation instead of [...]