Food or nutrition-related New Year’s resolutions were more popular among consumers going into 2024 compared to last year, according to the January Consumer Food Insights Report.

The USDA has released the results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture and it shows a continued decrease in the number of U.S. farming operations.

The nation’s railroads as well as airlines and ocean-going ships offer massive new opportunities for the U.S. biofuel industry, but some significant policy and logistical challenges could stand in the way.

The land John Childears farms near North Platte is sandy, not particularly fertile, less than ideal. But the value of his land largely lies beneath his feet: the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest in the world.

Soybean growers in Nebraska and across the U.S. have just been thrown a curveball, as a federal court in Arizona vacated registration of dicamba formulations specific for use on dicamba-tolerant soybeans (including Xtendimax, Engenia, and Tavium), finding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to meet regulatory requirements. Dicamba is still an effective weed control option, particularly when it comes to Palmer amaranth.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists are busy working at U.S. ports of entry to ensure that flower imports are free from pests and diseases that could harm the agriculture and floral industry of the United States.

A farm management analyst suggests farm program decisions are being clouded by market and weather uncertainty.

The Agriculture Department and Americorps on Monday unveiled the Working Lands Climate Corps, a program aimed at recruiting more than 100 young people to provide outreach and technical assistance for farmers looking to implement conservation practices.

Production will slow in 2024 as the sow herd contracts in the main production regions. This trend is expected to result in a decline or flat production throughout 2024, with disease pressures adding to the industry's challenges.

Kinze Manufacturing is putting on display this week at the National Farm Machinery Show its new 5670 pivot-fold, split-row model planter for the 2025 planting season.

Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) Director Tim Boring celebrated Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Executive Budget Recommendation, which builds on the momentum of last year, grows the economy and ensures anyone can “make it” in Michigan.

Leaders of the Congressional Ag Trade Caucus are encouraging the Biden administration to be more aggressive on trade.

House Agriculture Committee Republicans want to use the farm bill to improve the operation of programs such as the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, the chairman of the the Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture subcommittee says.

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture members passed a policy amendment supporting farmers and ranchers’ ability to safeguard animal health through the responsible use of vaccines.

With the rise of herbicide resistance, some might say that weed control has gone to the dogs. In one particular case, it quite literally has -- well, a robot dog, that is.

National Corn Growers Association board member and Iowa corn grower Bob Hemesath was recently elected to serve as president of the international agricultural advocacy group Farmers for Free Trade.

The USDA has cut its guesses for soybean and corn production in Brazil.

State and national associations representing soybean and cotton growers have asked EPA to issue an order to allow farmers to use existing stocks of over-the-top (OTT) dicamba herbicides after a federal court this week vacated the registrations of three of those products.

Led by a record-shattering performance in Mexico and broad-based growth in other markets, U.S. pork exports set a value record in 2023, according to year-end data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Agricultural exporters are dealing with increased freight costs and trade disruptions amid ongoing conflicts in the Red Sea, industry leaders told the Federal Maritime Commission during a hearing Wednesday.

Regardless of which team you’re rooting for, your football party will be the real winner this Sunday thanks to a team of 2 million farm families working on your behalf.

Net farm income, a broad measure of profits, is forecast at $116.1 billion in calendar year 2024, a decrease of $39.8 billion (25.5 percent) relative to 2023 in nominal (not adjusted for inflation) dollars.

The Chairwoman of the Senate Ag Committee says there’s still opportunity to get a farm bill done this year.

Just down the street from each other, groups representing the nation's veterinarians and state agricultural directors are both raising concerns about the growing shortage of rural veterinarians who treat food animals.

EPA wants to give growers credit for implementing Natural Resources Conservation Service practices as part of the agency’s effort to protect endangered species.

Anyone who has experienced a gastrointestinal virus knows the key to getting back to good health is to keep drinking fluids. That is true for beef cattle as well, say the experts at the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute.

A federal court in Arizona on Tuesday vacated the 2020 registrations of three dicamba products previously approved by the EPA for over-the-top applications including XtendiMax, Engenia and Tavium. The court ruled the agency violated notice-and-comment mandates for new-use pesticide registrations.

Democrats on the U.S. House Ag Committee say they will not compromise their principles in a bipartisan farm bill.