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Several state agriculture departments have issued alerts regarding unsolicited packages containing seeds arriving in the mail from China. The Washington State Department […]

Senators Say Package Commits $20 Billion in Additional Support for Agriculture Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Sen. Mike Rounds, […]

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will launch a third round of Farmers to Families Food […]

Last week, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) released its “2019 U.S. Agricultural Export Yearbook,” that provided “a statistical summary of U.S. agricultural […]

Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Hoeven, R-N.D., told DTN on Wednesday he believes the Senate coronavirus aid package will contain about […]

With climate action increasingly taking center stage among federal lawmakers and policymakers in Washington, an agriculture subcommittee hearing in the U.S. House […]

Since 1980, the US crop safety net has been countercyclical to aggregate net return for the 9 crops that USDA (US Department […]

Hog producers currently are holding on to about 1.1 million animals that should have been slaughtered already. The number could grow to […]

In an update last week from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (“Agricultural Lending Consistently Slower“), Nathan Kauffman and Ty Kreitman stated that, “Agricultural financing […]

Dairy producers and other farmers across the country struggled with crashing commodity prices early on in the Coronavirus pandemic. While Collin Peterson […]