Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

Congress has iced the Farm Bill, but farmer advocates argue some portions are urgent; the Hoosier State is reaping big rewards from wind and solar; and opponents react to a road through Alaska’s...

Hearings to modernize Federal Milk Marketing Orders have resumed with a lot of work ahead. Roger Cryan, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about where the hearings are at i...

The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in a long time. Lance Zimmerman, senior beef and cattle market analyst for Rabobank, says producers are still contracting their herd sizes."Yeah, we are....

Here’s to the land of the longleaf pine...so begins the state toast of North Carolina, but much of that longleaf forest in North Carolina has been lost to clearcutting for the tar and turpentine...

A new report shows agricultural growth is slowing just as ag leaders say it needs to be ramping up to meet the needs of an exploding world population.In the last decade, the world's agricultural outpu...

Crop data, whether it’s weather, crop condition, crop model information, or any number of agricultural statistics, these data resources are useful and, in many cases, can stand alone. That’...

An Illinois jury found that several of the country's major egg producers conspired to limit America's supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case that began in a federal lawsuit 12 years ago. Se...

A U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement dispute panel has allowed Canada to continue restricting dairy access that the U.S. negotiated for under the agreement. The action came after an earlier panel ruled in J...

This is an exciting new program being led by the S.C. Department of Corrections and South Carolina-based AmplifiedAg, Inc. with our support.The legislature has approved construction of a vertical farm...

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540.The holiday markets were not friendly to the grain and oilseed bulls last week. ...