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Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford wanted to stress the urgency of the situation. “What is happening right now is devastation,” Ford said of the struggles of many American farmers. Ford was one of the featured speakers at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Fortune began the series in 1998 to highly some of the most influential women in business. Ford has served as CEO of Land O’Lakes, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based agricultural cooperative, since

Farmers and farmland investors would like to harvest some optimism in their fall fields that the partial federal government shutdown can...

The Trump administration is looking at providing a $10 billion aid package from taxpayers to help farmers who are suffering from low...

America’s farmers find themselves in a similar position in 2025 as they did in 2018: parts of the federal government have temporarily...

America’s farmers are exceptional at what they grow and produce. Sometimes, it seems like it is to their detriment as they deal with a...

The potential of Chinese consumers to provide the stable export market for cherry producers in America’s Northwest feels largely out of...

Adam Chappell heard his father’s warnings when he was growing up.  He should get a college degree and do something else rather than...

Leaders for two critical agricultural industries for the United States, corn and soybeans, are warning leaders in Washington, D.C. that...

The Cost of Tariffs: John Deere Expects to Lose Hundreds of Millions They put off buying a new combine. They decided that a tractor can...

After roughly one in eight U.S. farms disappeared or became part of someone else’s farm in the past quarter century, it could make a...

Bayer continues to manage the legal fallout from its 2018 acquisition of Monsanto, with CEO Bill Anderson announcing the company has recently settled or dismissed 17,000 glyphosate-related cases. Of the 192,000 total claims filed, 61,000 remain unresolved. Bayer has already paid over $10 billion in settlements but maintains that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is safe and backed by decades of research.

Taxpayers could save $4 billion following a major restructuring of the USDA, which includes shifting workers from Washington, D.C. to...

U.S. beef could once again make its way to Australia. It marks a return for American beef after Australia officials had banned it because...

Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts . This year has brought six months of uncertainty and chaos for farm producers and...

Landowners in North Dakota have now joined a second group in a lawsuit against Summit Carbon Solutions, an Ames, Iowa-based pipeline...

There has been a heightened focus on stopping foreign purchases of American farmland, especially from China. The USDA has announced a...

Farm and ranch owners are watching raids continue, listening to what the president is saying, and following what the country’s secretary...

This has not yet been the time for the U.S. central bank to lower interest rates, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Tuesday....

Raids and apprehensions by federal officials directed by the Trump administration are testing the daily functions of some agricultural...

While members of Congress, lobby groups, and impacted Americans argued over the ramifications of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill Act,”...