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WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - Farmers who don’t have access to conventional crop insurance are showing increasing interest in the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP), which was expanded by the 2014 farm bill.

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - The results of the latest survey of U.S. beekeepers by the Bee Informed Partnership offer hope for the industry and for growers who depend on the tiny pollinators, but experts also caution not to read too much into the numbers.

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - The economics of sorghum production aren’t nearly as dismal as some aggregate data may suggest.

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - A lack of domestic organic feed production is forcing organic livestock producers to source corn and soybeans from foreign markets,...

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 30, 2017 – When Terry Branstad, the new U.S. ambassador to China, gets settled into his Beijing headquarters, the former Iowa governor is going to see some familiar faces.

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2017 - A Senate energy bill that failed to make it through the last Congress will be the starting point for talks in this Congress, top Senate staffers on the Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee say.

WASHINGTON, May 26, 2017 - Pressure is mounting on the Justice Department to back off its prosecution of a California nursery owner who is facing $2.8 million in fines for plowing in wetlands.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 25, 2017 - With financial pressures increasing for farmers, programs to help them – and rural America in general – should not be on the chopping block, Senate Agriculture Committee members said at a hearing today.

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2017 – A spike in cotton prices has gotten the attention of growers and policymakers, but analysts say it’s likely temporary and may have little impact on producers’ pocketbooks or the cost of their farm bill proposal.