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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the second tranche of 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments aimed at assisting farmers suffering from […]

Feral hogs are one of the biggest nuisances U.S. agriculture faces with as many as 7 million wild hogs in 37 states […]

Throughout its history, conservation policy can be understood, in part, as representing attempts at achieving balance.  Policies have involved balancing the demands […]

Josh Zumbrun, William Mauldin and Chao Deng reported on the front page of Friday’s Wall Street Journal that, “Beijing’s announcement Thursday that the U.S. and […]

Industrial hemp looks and smells an awful lot like that other cannabis – marijuana Field tests used by law enforcement officers can […]

After the USDA and White House announced the 2019 MFP program, we noted that direct government payments were set to soar in 2019. […]

The Havana International Trade Fair is where Cuba puts the best face on its struggling economy. There are state-run restaurants stocked with […]

Seven Midwest senators and Iowa’s governor, all Republicans, are pushing back on EPA’s supplemental plan for the Renewable Fuel Standard, stating in […]

Soybeans were higher in overnight trading after Chinese state media said Beijing and Washington agreed to remove some of the existing tariffs […]

With the support of both farm organizations and the United Farm Workers union, a bipartisan group of House members introduced a new […]