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Senior political leaders at USDA, which has been accused of downplaying the climate issue, say helping farmers address climate change is a priority for the department, asserting that sustainably increasing food production to feed a growing global population is a matter of “world security.” 

The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced 172 American poultry slaughter and processing facilities that can export their products to China.

President Donald Trump announces his intent to nominate Finch Fulton to assistant secretary of Transportation and Tas Smith has joined the National Cotton Council.

The CEA Food Safety Coalition named Marni Karlin as executive director and The California Association of Winegrape Growers elected a new board officers and directors.

The Department of Agriculture expects imports of an additional 100,000 short tons of refined Mexican sugar to compensate for shortages in U.S. production.

Sugarbeets are stuck in the ground across thousands of acres in the upper Midwest, leaving producers and policymakers wondering just how to handle an unforeseen and unfamiliar situation.

U.S. dairy farmers are finally experiencing some price relief after four years of an economic downturn in which many farmers struggled to break even. But ongoing economic pressures will require farmers to leave no stone unturned as they seek to become more resilient.

There won’t likely be enough sugar in the U.S. market to comfortably supply all the bakers, candy makers and food manufacturers that need it at a reasonable price, so USDA will soon be announcing a plan to allow for more imports, the department announced Friday.

Starting Monday, the Agriculture Department will start providing farmers their second tranche of payments under the 2019 version of the Market Facilitation Program, the Trump administration's effort to compensate farmers for the impact of retaliatory tariffs.

China is lifting its four-year ban on U.S. poultry, opening the way for hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. exports and demonstrating a further thaw in U.S.-China trade relations.