Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Dec. 30th
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540. We are coming down to the last few trading sessions of 2025 without much ac...
Brooks Schaffer Dec 30, 2025

Better Border Security Helping Farm Labor Discussion
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act has had trouble gaining traction in recent years because, in part, of problems with border security. Washington Representative Dan Newhouse, who just announced he'...
Bob Larson Dec 30, 2025

Why is U.S. Agriculture Still Waiting for Labor Reform?
Another year has come and gone without farm labor reforms, and a longtime Senator explains why. Iowa Senator and farmer Chuck Grassley is as frustrated as any over Congress' decades' long failure to r...
Chad Smith Dec 29, 2025

Ethanol Groups Continue Pushing for Year-Round Ethanol
The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) is actively engaging the Environmental Protection Agency on the Renewable Fuel Standard, seeking final volumes and the reallocation of waived gallons to preven...
Stephanie Hoff Dec 29, 2025

Why COP30 Mattered to U.S. Pork Producers
Last month's United Nations Conference of the Parties, or COP30, was attended by an estimated 50,000 people from around the globe. Maddie Hokanson, a seventh-generation Minnesota pig farmer, participa...
Chad Smith Dec 29, 2025 Maddie Hokanson at the COP30 event in Belém, Brazil. (Photo credit: PorkCheckoff.org)

Expanding Access to Risk Protection
Public comments are now being accepted through Jan. 27 on a final rule designed to expand producer access to crop insurance and other risk protections. USDA Risk Management Agency Administrator Pat Sw...
Rod Bain Dec 29, 2025

The Time is Now for Year-Round E15
E15 is a part of President Donald Trump's America First energy plan, and it's time for Congress to pass legislation to allow for its year-round sale. It's a common-sense solution that lowers costs and...
Chad Smith Dec 29, 2025
Winter storm sweeps across US with snow, ice and severe weather
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone that is taking aim...
Associated Press Dec 28, 2025

Tariffs Impacting Exports, but Demand Remains Strong
Economists continue to study the impact that President Donald Trump's tariffs are having on international trade. But one ag economist says they have not put a dent in consumers' buying patterns. Dr. D...
Mike Davis Dec 26, 2025

Snow on Christmas: A Rare Sight in the Carolinas
Well, Christmas has come and gone, and we did not have a white Christmas. It was sunny and warm. But are white Christmases around the Carolinas rare? Do we see them a lot? State assistant climatologis...
Kyle Nachtsheim Dec 26, 2025 Snow covers Patton Avenue in Asheville on Christmas morning in 2010. (Photo by Margaret Hester/Asheville Citizen Times)
