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Agriculture producers had warned the Trump administration for months, along with members of Congress, that deportation raids by...

Since a Wyoming farm boy who expected a longer career as a lighting technician for film and television never anticipated that he would...

A much-anticipated veto by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, brought a range of reactions because of the potential significance...

Mifflin County, Pennsylvania Farmers have been hurriedly looking for alternative sources of income ever since the Trump administration...

An ever-changing, unpredictable trade war, jittering financial markets, and recession fears have many people wondering what it will mean...

Tariff news changes week to week and even day to day, leaving a lot of people in agriculture feeling uncertain about the future. But Kent...

There were 69 pages in a new report titled, “Making Our Children Healthy Again,”  that could impact –either with policy or persuasion –...

“Most American burgers are, in fact, not entirely American,” began a New York Times article , an article that dished out what many...

The promise of new trade deals fuels both optimism and pessimism from farmers and producers as they wait for developments from the Trump...

An anonymous donor has come forward to save some of the work that the Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) planned after the Trump administration...

Most Americans aren’t farmers. Only about 2% of adults in the United States are farmers or ranchers. Most Americans don’t understand how...

American farmers who have lost federal support to provide meat and produce to food pantries, school, and childcare centers may soon have...

What can farmland owners expect from the USDA if 15% of the federal agency’s workforce is gone? More than 15,000 USDA employees took the...

Tariff skeptics are plentiful these days. Chad Tentinger is not one of them. Tentinger is a lifelong cattle farmer from northwest Iowa...

South Dakota is the unofficial hemp capital of the United States, at least if you look at acres harvested. Although, Texas is making a...

Farmers have much to watch as they wait to find out what changes at the federal level are permanent and which ones will be temporary as...

One group to watch amid the numerous changes that a new year and new presidential administration have brought – and uncertainties about...

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants the USDA to remember that highly pathogenic avian influenza is not just a threat to millions of...

Andre Faul, Jr., never expected to be running a fundraiser just to break even on 1,300-pound meat delivery to a local school district....

Strong agricultural communities – which are primarily smaller, rural towns – rely on the need for certain foundational strengths: access...