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Hopes dimmed last week for any options to ease a decade-long trend in rising compliance costs. Farmers are seeing yet another bump in water quality fees.

USDA appoints new leadership and Jason Weller joins JBS to lead the company’s sustainability efforts.

Producers of fruits, vegetables and other specialty crops will be asking lawmakers for more funding in the next farm bill, including new research to meet the sector’s pressing need for automation and new crop-protection products.

The USDA Equity Commission is recommending a study into the potential termination of the Farm Service Agency county committees and is recommending USDA stand up a program to ensure county committee minority advisers have direct access to the FSA administrator.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is blocking the speedy movement of Doug McKalip’s nomination to be the chief agricultural negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, a position U.S. farm groups and farm states have been eager to see filled as quickly as possible.

New legislation from a bipartisan pair of Senate Ag Committee members adds an additional wrinkle to the conversation about foreign purchases of U.S. farmland.

A program to boost domestic fertilizer production capacity announced earlier this year will be open for business soon.

The Biden administration hosts the first White House conference on hunger and nutrition in more than 50 years to debate a national strategy that officials will unveil ahead of the Wednesday meeting.

The Trump administration's overhaul of Endangered Species Act regulations that was welcomed by industry groups but opposed by environmentalists is back in place following an appeals court decision.

More money is being awarded through the Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect program, offering loans or grants to 32 projects across 20 states to strengthen the country’s rural broadband access.