Snowfall in higher elevations in the Northwest, along with soaking rains from Tropical Storm Eta in parts of Florida highlight the major precipitation events in the last week, according to Thursday's U.S. Drought Monitor update.

New rosters of leaders are taking shape in the transition team at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the office of the U.S. Trade Representatives (USTR).

Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee John Hoeven of North Dakota said earlier this week his chamber’s version of…

The mercury's rapidly falling in much of the U.S., a time when ranchers assess their winter feedstocks and make any adjustments to ensure they've got enough quality and supply to sustain their herds through the winter.

The 2018 Farm Bill called for the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to review its conservation practices for any potential changes to better enable participants to integrate those practices on the farm level.

Grain farmers aren’t the ones who are getting bullish market news this week. Cattle and hog finishing margins continue to…

While environmental groups are also setting their sites on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the legality of another herbicide, farmers and farm groups filed a lawsuit earlier this week on the restrictions mandated for dicamba use.

The U.S. corn and soybean crops got smaller as the 2020 growing season progressed, and coupled with a record export projection for corn and the lowest soybean ending stocks in seven years, analysts expect the data contained in Monday's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) data to fuel bullish momentum for both markets as North American harvest wraps up.

World markets took note of the announcement Monday that Pfizer is conducting promising late-stage trials on a COVID-19 vaccine, and that bullishness spilled into the grain trade.

Ann Veneman was the first female U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during George W. Bush's first term as president.