Archive for the "Top Ag News" Category

As hospitals and nursing homes desperately search for hand sanitizer amid the coronavirus outbreak, federal regulators are preventing ethanol producers from providing […]

Farmers and orchard owners nationwide are breathing a little easier this week as more H-2A workers will be able to cross the […]

EPA announced its next steps on small-refinery exemptions following a recent decision by the Trump administration not to appeal a recent court […]

With food banks charting unknown territory in the midst of a global crisis, farmers and grain companies in the Midwest are stepping […]

Finally, some rice is in the ground. Barely. DELAYED — Due to steady, intermittent rainfall throughout the winter and spring, essentially no rice […]

These flexibilities include: enabling producers to send notifications and reports electronically, extending the date for production reports and providing additional time and deferring interest on premium and other payments.

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) county offices are open by phone appointment only until further notice, and FSA staff are available to […]

The Senate advanced by a vote of 96-0 its Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security Act (CARES Act) in a vote late […]

Extraordinary restrictions have been put in place in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and many […]

With seed treatment use on the rise, farmers and regulators are becoming hard-pressed to keep track of the rising number of pesticide […]