Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and former Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill are the recipients of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2024 Distinguished Service Award and Farm Bureau Founders Award, respectively.

Another stopgap bill is expected to avoid a partial government shutdown next week.

Following this week’s announcement of a bipartisan agreement on topline funding levels for fiscal year 2024 appropriations and as negotiations still continue in Congress on a final budget, the Administration believes it is critical that final appropriations bills fully fund WIC, to allow the program to continue to serve all eligible pregnant women, mothers, infants, and children who apply.

Biofuel producers and farmers were caught between two storms at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin accepting applications for the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (Continuous CRP) signup on Jan. 12, 2024.

Grocery prices rose just 0.1% in December for the second month in a row and are up 1.3% year over year as food inflation continues to moderate, according to the latest Consumer Price Index.

A storm system emerging from the western U.S. will cross the southern Plains by Thursday night and reach peak intensity over the eastern Corn Belt on Friday.

The political flashpoint of foreign ownership of agricultural land isn't going away as more bills are offered in statehouses and governors take executive actions to add reporting requirements, restrictions and bans.

Attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea have the potential to disrupt global trade.

While some farmers are likely to see negative net cash farm incomes this year, many should have cash reserves from strong recent years to help carry them forward, a top ag economist says.

A livestock economist says cattle markets are starting 2024 in a much better position than they were last year.

Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA has lowered its soybean and corn production outlooks.

At least a couple of cuts in the Fed interest rate are likely in 2024, offering short-term support for farmland values; but the astounding growth in land values remains susceptible to a 1980s-like crash as the country's long-term debt problem looms.

Growth Energy, the nation’s largest biofuels trade association, this week filed two petitions for rehearing with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Court’s 2023 decision on small refinery exemptions (SREs) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Iowa’s farmland values rose again, albeit at a slower pace than the last two years.

Farmers believe the nation is on the wrong track, and a strong plurality support electing Donald Trump to another term as president, according to a poll commissioned by Agri-Pulse of producers across the country.

Congress is working out the details of a new budget after an agreement was reached on a $1.6 trillion funding limit over the weekend and an agricultural lobbyist says the work will take priority over advancing a new farm bill.

Nearly 70 groups will receive $203 million in fiscal 2024 grants awarded through USDA's Market Access and Foreign Market Development programs.

A huge winter storm is moving across the United States early this week for both the central and eastern part of the country.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor will lead the agribusiness trade mission to New Delhi, India, from April 22-25, 2024. USDA is now accepting applications from U.S. exporters who wish to join this delegation.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig released a statement Monday after the 8th Circuit Court unanimously overruled the District Court and upheld Iowa’s 2019 and 2021 agriculture trespass laws as constitutional.

Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Jan. 7.

The USDA’s Foreign Ag Service has lowered its estimate for Brazil’s soybean crop.

Despite a looming government shutdown amid talks to secure another continuing resolution, as well as upcoming elections, Congress needs to make sure it passes a farm bill this year, says the leader of the nation’s largest farm organization.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) last week announced up to $3 million is available for cooperative agreements to educate underserved, small-scale and organic producers on risk management and climate-smart practices.

With the growing public interest in monounsaturated fatty acids, the pork industry is looking at how it can enhance meat quality.

An ag economist says farmers are cautiously optimistic about where farmland values are headed according to the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.

Ethanol, trade and America's relationship with China are a few of the topics Republican presidential candidates have been talking with Iowans about as they barnstorm the state in preparation for the state’s Jan. 15 caucuses.