PepsiCo and Walmart on Wednesday announced a 7-year collaboration to pursue $120 million worth of investments focused on supporting U.S. and Canadian farmers in their pursuit to improve soil health and water quality.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to bar investors from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying U.S. farmland and require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review land purchases by investors from any other foreign country totaling more than $5 million or 320 acres.

Cattle producers are continuing to fight against burdensome regulations.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that USDA is expanding access to health care for more than 5 million people living in 39 states and Puerto Rico as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

After its introduction in the Senate last month, Tuesday a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Reps. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) and Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.) introduced the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Accuracy Act in the U.S. House.

Environmental Working Group is touting six farming practices in the Corn Belt the group says could greatly reduce nitrous oxide emissions in crop production.

The White House says it will veto an appropriations bill that cuts USDA and Food and Drug Administration funding for fiscal year 2024.

EPA has released a draft strategy addressing the impact of herbicides on federally endangered species in a bid to streamline legally required — but often lengthy — consultations with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

As cell-cultured proteins continue to advance, cattle producers want to make sure there is truth in packaging.

After improving the past few weeks, the national corn condition rating held steady last week, and soybean conditions fell slightly, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report released Monday.

Many gardeners were surprised this summer when their jalapeno plants began producing an unidentified yellow pepper.

The USDA decided Friday to proceed with a hearing on the Federal Milk Marketing Order system.

All cattle and calves in the United States on July 1, 2023, totaled 95.9 million head, 3% below the 98.6 million head on July 1, 2022, USDA NASS reported in its biannual Cattle Inventory report on Friday.

This summer, global temperatures soared on July 4, reflecting one of the hottest days recorded on Earth, according to climate data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Average global temperatures were approximately 63 degrees Fahrenheit — one of the warmest days in 125,000 years.

A federal appeals court says it doesn’t have jurisdiction over a challenge to dicamba registrations brought by soybean and cotton growers, leaving the herbicide's fate in the hands of a pair of district courts entertaining somewhat differing lawsuits.

Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was honored with the National Corn Growers Association’s 2023 President’s Award during the organization’s annual Corn Congress summer meeting in Washington, D.C.

It has been a relatively active and calm period in the Corn Belt during the last several weeks. This pattern is about to change again, toward one of more heat and less-frequent precipitation for next week.

Russia says it would return to the Black Sea Grain Initiative with Ukraine if certain conditions are met, but an ag economist says that isn’t likely to happen.

The director of the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday pushed back against concerns that its analysts are taking too long to deliver farm bill cost estimates to the House and Senate Ag committees and said it wasn’t practical to add staff to deal with the legislation.

U.S. Reps. Randy Feenstra (R-IA), Zach Nunn (R-IA), and Deborah Ross (D-NC) introduced the Genome to Phenome Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2023, which would support continued research at Iowa State University to increase crop yields – particularly corn – while keeping costs low for Iowa farmers and producers.

Ag economists with CoBank expect tight global grain stocks to drive farmer prices into the second half of 2023.

A federal court in North Dakota granted a stay in an ongoing multistate lawsuit against the EPA's latest waters of the U.S. rule, giving the Biden administration time to complete a rewrite.

Crop insurance, labor, and rural broadband are top of mind for Hoosier farmers as the House and Senate Ag Committees work to draft the 2023 Farm Bill.

There were fears that even though U.S. ag exports to China were rising after the countries agreed to a trade war détente during the Trump administration, the U.S. might never recover its pre-trade war share of China’s imports.

U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced the Access to Credit for our Rural Economy (ACRE) Act of 2023. This legislation would benefit American families, farmers and rural communities nationwide by giving greater flexibility to more financial institutions to offer affordable lines of credit to rural and agricultural borrowers.

ADM, a global leader in sustainable agriculture supply chains, is launching a significant expansion of its re:generations™ regenerative agriculture program, ensuring more North American producers can earn additional income while making a positive impact on the environment and their soil’s health.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today launched a partnership between USDA and bipartisan attorneys general in 31 states and the District of Columbia to enhance competition and protect consumers in food and agricultural markets, including in grocery, meat and poultry processing, and other markets.

Ranking Member John Boozman says the Senate Ag Committee is working hard and moving in the right direction to complete a farm bill.