Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

As the beef industry prepares to meet in Orlando for the 2024 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show today through Friday, the policy playbook is top of mind. Executive Vice President of the O...

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture set the organization's primary areas of policy focus in 2024. NASDA CEO Ted McKinney says a new farm bill is at the top of their list."The ...

Landowners, if you have forest on your acreage and perhaps sell timber from that property or old the land for investment-only purposes, tax planning needs to be considered, especially with April 15 ap...

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is calling on Ottawa to step up defense of Canada's trade interests with November's U.S. presidential election drawing closer – especially with the upcoming six-...

Federal, state, and local elected officials along with academics and innovators gathered in Greenville, North Carolina last Wednesday for Congressman Greg Murphy and Congressman David Rouzer's third a...

Farm Bill extension means producers have a March 15 deadline to make a decision between the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs known as ARC and PLC. Steve Johnson, retired Iowa...

Former South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch has stepped into the CEO job for the United Soybean Board. Lynch says USB handles the national soybean checkoff dollars.Every state that rais...

American Farm Bureau's annual convention concluded Tuesday with a session on policy priorities for 2024. AFBF President Zippy Duvall says the Farm Bill is the top issue."We stressed the importance of ...

The strength of the U.S. dollar compared to currency in other countries is a big factor in successfully exporting American ag commodities. The Federal Reserve says it won't raise interest rates for no...

We are at the halfway point of climatological winter, and I think that might be a good time to take a look back on what has looked like a fairly warm and wet season, but I’m gonna get the expert...