Congress voted Monday to approve another round of COVID-19 aid to provide $900 billion in payments to those adversely affected by the pandemic, including farmers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings in rural America's access to high-speed internet service. Sixty-three percent of rural residents said in a recent study they have access to a broadband internet connection at their homes.

Today marks the lowest the sun will ascend into the sky in the northern hemisphere and the highest will will climb in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Farmers who faced cool, damp weather late in the growing season this year are seeing vomitoxin levels at economic thresholds and at the point at which commercial elevators won't be able to accept the grain.

Beef packer margins have declined 33% in the last week, with per-head profits at the plant now around $332 compared to close to $500 just a week ago.

Everything farmers have faced in 2020 has highlighted the importance of strong succession and contingency planning, and one longtime Extension economist offered some tips this week to take on a few of the most critical components of the process from successor development to planning the exit of the current primary business owner and manager.

The ethanol industry piled up major losses starting in March -- ones that rippled through farm communities around rural America -- when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Managing federal payments to farmers as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and managing relationships with global ag trading partners are major policy priorities for the new administration in looking ahead to the new year, but that's not all.

As agriculture looks ahead to a largely uncertain year, some are taking stock of the good news of 2020, a year fraught with challenges, especially to the livestock sector.