Half of the nation's beef herd — around 16 million head — is in the Great Plains, and the industry generates more than $8.56 billion in annual cash receipts alone in Texas.

It's not often the beef industry is united behind a common idea, but that's just what is happening as that industry seeks congressional intervention in the marketplace, namely the fundamentals behind the fact processors continue to make high profits on surging consumer demand while cattle feeders continue to lose money.

Farmers around the country have reported considerable delays in getting machinery and parts from their dealers, causing fieldwork disruptions at a bad time for them.

While a wetter week is expected for much of the U.S. this week, California is a major exception, and conditions have reached the dire point at which some farmers are starting to give up on crop output for this summer.

A primarily dry spring weather trend has shifted to a wetter pattern that will deliver much-needed rainfall to parts of the northern Plains and Corn Belt.

The discovery of a crack in a steel beam in a bridge over the Mississippi River on I-40 in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this week has snarled barge traffic and caused the halt of more than 700 vessels as officials inspect the bridge to determine repairs necessary to resuming river traffic.

The Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) program has proven to be RMA’s most successful livestock product, covering nearly 30% of milk…

The U.S. beef herd is in its second year of distinct contraction as part of the usually around eight-year broader…

After a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline responsible for delivering considerable gasoline supplies from Georgia to the Northeast, operations are still stalled, creating massive angst about rocketing gasoline supply disruptions and resulting price spikes.

Farmers in 372 counties nationwide stretching from Texas and Kansas to California and Hawaii — roughly 1 in 7 counties…