The emerging proposals would expand grants and loans in the agriculture and industrial sectors to help them shift to clean energy providers with fewer greenhouse gas emissions that contribute …
A geographic trend in production has emerged in which dairy farmers are gravitating toward the nation's midsection.
The funding for conservation programs would emphasize the stewardship dairy farmers are trying to do to reduce their carbon footprint.
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The company is on track to have its best year for exports in its 76 year history despite pandemic challenges.
The agency will begin taking applications Nov. 24.
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The two multinational companies combined in 2018 in a transaction valued at $66 billion even as Monsanto came under legal fire for the alleged cancer-causing properties of its Roundup brand of…
The group says the bill does nothing to address the issue of price discovery in dwindling negotiated cash markets.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States ordered a halt Thursday to imports of tomatoes from a Mexican farming company and its subsidiaries for what officials said was abusive treatment of workers …
About 62% of the wetlands in the Intermountain West are flood-irrigated pastures and hay meadows in floodplains. Those wetlands are concentrated on 7% of irrigated agricultural land.
The legislation would establish a cattle contract library to provide information on alternative marketing agreements.
In the past two months, the price of urea — a common benchmark for other nitrogen products — has soared from about $420 per ton to $700 per ton on the Gulf of Mexico’s wholesale market.
More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers went on strike last week at 14 Deere factories in Illinois, Iowa, Colorado, Kansas and Georgia. It is the first major walkout at the agricultural machi…
Farmers and others in the food supply chain participated in a virtual roundtable last week on the current challenges and what they’d like included in the administration’s trade agenda.
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WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Farmers and Deere & Co. suppliers are worried about what the strike at the tractor maker's factories will mean for their livelihoods.
Participants say consolidation in the beef industry stretching back to the 1970s that resulted in four companies slaughtering over 80% of the nation’s cattle, giving the processors more power …
Farmers for Free Trade says renegotiating current trade agreements isn’t enough to keep pace with productivity gains.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will highlight the problems caused by Western drought as she visits Lake Mead in Nevada and makes the case for the Biden administration…
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KNOX, Ind. (AP) — An Israeli company has started work to build a solar energy farm that’s planned to cover some 13,000 acres across two northern Indiana counties when completed.
PHOENIX (AP) — Federal land-management agencies have agreed to do more to keep cattle from grazing in sensitive habitat for threatened and endangered species in the Verde River watershed, sett…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Montana law that sought to prevent the closure of a coal-fired power plant by requiring its outgoing owners to pay for long-ter…
For the second straight year, the world heads into a new La Nina weather event. This would tend to dry out parts of an already parched and fiery American West and boost an already busy Atlanti…
More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers went on strike Thursday, the first major walkout at the agricultural machinery giant in more than three decades.
The projects are part of President Joe Biden’s plan to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, generating enough electricity to power more than 10 million homes.
NAWG hopes to discuss its concerns with Simpson's $33.5 billion proposal, which calls for removing the dams and ending all salmon litigation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Farmers nationwide have expressed concern over potential changes to U.S. tax rates proposed in President Biden’s “Build Back Better” package, the $3.5 trillion budget reconc…
Shipping rates have zigzagged upward since late 2019 when COVID-19 hit, significantly adding to export costs and cutting into producers' bottom lines.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An early winter storm is forecast to bring the first heavy snowfall of the season to portions of the U.S. Rocky Mountains this week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunger and food insecurity across the United States have dropped measurably over the past six months, but the need remains far above pre-pandemic levels. And specialists in h…
If confirmed, Chuck Sams would be the first American Indian to serve as National Park Service director. He is Cayuse, Walla Walla, Cocopah and Yankton Sioux.
The research will include countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to carry out large-scale animal surveillance.
Agricultural exporters and shipping industry leaders had a heated exchange at the Agriculture Transportation Coalition's virtual convention.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stressed the need for additional processing capacity during a hearing of the House Agriculture Committee on the state of the livestock industry.
He is propagating somewhere between 200 and 250 different fruit varieties, probably closer to 300 if you count the various berries growing on the property as well.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is restoring two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and development some red-rock…
The stopgap spending bill includes $10 billion in agricultural disaster aid through the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus in 2020 and 2021, according to NAWG.
Agencies will be able to write their own stricter NEPA rules, deny proposals based on climate change predictions and no longer will have to consider a project's goals in judging its environmen…
The initiative adds to previously announced funding to expand meat and poultry processing capacity.
The deadline to apply is Nov. 22
Joe Bippert, program director at the Washington Grain Commission, will join U.S. Wheat Associates, the overseas marketing arm for the industry, beginning Nov. 1.
