Category Archives: Top Agriculture News
Beef Flowing Between Mexico and the U.S. May Be Changing?
The southern U.S. border has been closed to livestock imports from Mexico for more than a year, thanks to the New World Screwworm marching northward through Mexico. With very tight cattle supplies in ...
Feb 19, 2026
National FFA Week Celebrates Students and Changes Lives
Around the nation, FFA members are celebrating National FFA Week, February 21-28. Layten Sobieski, the state sentinel on the Wisconsin State FFA Officer Team, talked about his first FFA experience. "M...
Feb 19, 2026 Photo Credit: Lost_in_the_Midwest / Shutterstock.com
Ag Groups File Amicus Brief Supporting AEWR Interim Ruling
The Trump Administration's Adverse Effect Wage Rate interim ruling for H2-A workers is being challenged in court claiming the new calculations will harm foreign guest workers. A coalition of 25 ag gro...
Feb 18, 2026
NASCAR Names POET Official Bioethanol Partner
NASCAR is the first major U.S. motorsports series to utilize zero-carbon bioethanol, thanks to a new partnership with POET, the nation's largest biofuel producer. POET is now the Official Biofuel Part...
Feb 18, 2026 Chris Buescher, driver of the #17 Body Guard Ford, pits during the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 15, 2026 in Daytona Beach, Fla. (Photo Credit: USA Today)
Year-Round E15 Doubts Linger as Sunday Deadline for Deal Passes
Agreement on legislation to allow year-round E15 sales continued to elude farm and oil interests despite a Sunday deadline. A draft plan by the House GOP's Rural Domestic Energy Council failed to win ...
Feb 18, 2026 Photo Credit: B. D. Moeller / Shutterstock.com
Still Waiting for Full-Scale Beef Herd Rebuilding
Despite high beef prices, the U.S. cattle herd remains at record low numbers. Nate Kauffman, the senior vice president and Omaha branch executive for the Kansas City Fed, said the numbers show there s...
Feb 17, 2026
Troxler: Farmland Preservation Funding Lags Amid Rapid North Carolina Growth
North Carolina is facing record growth, but state agriculture officials warn that expansion is coming at a cost: the steady loss of farmland and forestland. North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Ste...
Feb 17, 2026
Labor Costs are Still Putting Producers Out of Business
It's no secret that the cost of agricultural labor is a major expense for farmers, but it has exploded in recent years to a level that many cannot afford. Kate Tynan, Vice President of the Northwest H...
Feb 17, 2026 Photo Credit: Richard Thornton / Shutterstock.com
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Feb. 17th
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540. Commodity markets were closed on Monday for the President's Day holiday. Th...
Feb 17, 2026
Social Media Gives Farmers a Platform to Tell Their Story
So many of the problems facing farmers today come from a lack of understanding among the public about where their food comes from and what it takes to produce it. Speaking with growers at December's W...
Feb 16, 2026