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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is opposed to extending waivers that eased school nutrition rules during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization is reporting that global food prices hit their highest level on record last month, and that doesn’t account for the full effects of the Ukraine crisis.

Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a massive bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, but negotiations were still far from final heading into the weekend.

The Russian government's decision to suspend fertilizer exports will threaten supplies for farmers in the European Union, South America and Africa while eventually pushing up prices that U.S. farmers must pay, according to analysts.

Organizations representing wheat, corn, soybeans and sorghum will wait until this summer before finalizing policies for the next farm bill.

Canada has officially released its proposal on how it would change the way it operates tariff rate quotas for imports of U.S. dairy and launched public consultations on implementing the proposed alterations, but an American dairy industry leader says the pitch by Global Affairs Canada is “unacceptable.”

The U.S. exports more than $130 million worth of poultry and poultry products annually to Central Asian nations and other nearby countries like Armenia and Georgia, but all of that trade is threatened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A leading U.S. ag economist thinks the Biden administration may have to open up the Conservation Reserve Program to cropping this year because of grain shortages that could result from the crisis in Ukraine.

Four nominees to be commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission were warmly received Wednesday by the Senate Ag Committee, where members are eager to fill four vacancies in a five-member board.