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Tyllor Ledford has joined the U.S. Wheat Associates’ West Coast office and Jon Reiter joins the board at Conterra Ag Capital.

Representatives of state farm bureaus, as well as individual farmers and ranchers, spoke out in favor of keeping the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule in place at an online meeting today.

The Agriculture Department is accepting 2.8 million acres into the land-idling Conservation Reserve Program, well under the 4 million acres the Biden administration was aiming for as part of its effort to use farmers to help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

House Democrats are setting aside the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill this week to take up a $3.5 trillion budget resolution needed to move President Joe Biden's domestic spending priorities and climate policy.

The Agriculture Department is providing nearly $350 million in payments to dairy producers who lost revenue because of market disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic and a change to a federal pricing formula made by the 2018 farm bill.

The state water board has approved an emergency regulation enabling the agency to curtail senior water rights along two key watersheds in Northern California.

Arizona farmers are bracing for water cuts next year after the Bureau of Reclamation announced a historic shortage at Lake Mead, which collects water from the Lower Colorado River Basin.

PG&E is proposing to dramatically boost electricity rates for customers by 2026 to invest in wildfire safety measures.

A new United Nations report underscores the grim reality that extreme heat poses for crops, livestock and farmworkers.