Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation WriterOMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in t...

By RUSS BYNUM and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers to heat in the summertime, but this week's sweltering hot weather set at least o...

MIKE RALEY WPTF Weekend Gardener We have enjoyed growing the very colorful Crocosmia-"montbretia" or "Coppertips"- a summer-blooming flower that reminds me of a miniature gladiola. Crocosmia grows fro...

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540.One of the joys of being a grain market analyst is I either have more to say...

Mahindra is back with its 12th annual Mahindra Military Salute Giveaway just for military members and veterans. The giveaway launch commemorated Flag Day and the US Army’s 250th birthday. Matt G...

Sometimes growers need a helping hand on the farm at harvest time, with a repair, or on a building project, and sometimes they just need someone to listen. The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute Fa...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2025 - Pat Hord, Ohio pork producer and vice president of the National Pork Producers Council, and Holly Cook, NPPC economist, testified before the full House Agri...

Pork and egg producers across the country will be watching Wednesday as the House Agriculture Committee holds a hearing on California’s Proposition 12. California voters passed Prop 12 in 2018 e...

Taking place now, sign up for a new USDA Disaster Assistance Program."Producers who experience losses covered by crop insurance or by Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program or nap can sign up for...

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540.We did not see a lot of new news last week to move the needle. The weather w...