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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...

The challenge is on for growers across America: how to replace the billions of federal dollars that previously paid for local food that...

Days ahead of President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” where he announced higher tariffs on approximately 50 countries,  his U.S....

American meat producers need foreigners to eat U.S. meat, but the Trump administration’s higher tariffs could limit demand, according to...

A stroke of the pen by a governor in one state could make that a significant signature in four other states, too. South Dakota Governor...

"To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United...

The patience and worry for farmland owners about their financial livelihood got some relief as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told members of Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. “economic activity has continued to expand at a...

As the agricultural community waits for clarity on what programs will still be funded, what energy sources are priorities, and how tariffs c

The federal funding freeze in agriculture programs has left many farmers facing difficult decisions, with a direct impact on their...

It might be months from now before agricultural producers in California know for sure whether President Donald Trump’s order to release...

It has been a week of chaos and confusion for agricultural producers, non-profits, and numerous others following the uncertainty caused...

By: David Geiger Edited by: Dave Price A new presidential term started off this week with an emphasis on President Trump’s America First policy. A part of that is a push to bring innovation and manufacturing back to America.  RELATED: Domestic production can be a bipartisan effort. Earlier this month, Reuters reported the Biden Administration blocked a U.S. Steel merger with Nippon Steel. The new Trump Administration also vowed to kill the effort.   While a new administratio