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Drought conditions that have been concentrated in the West and southern Plains are likely to spread in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota this summer, according to the U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the agency is putting a priority on re-evaluating pesticides for their environmental impact under the Endangered Species Act.

Democrats push a bill though the House Agriculture Committee that would create a special investigator's office at USDA to probe allegations of unfair marketing practices in the meat and poultry industry.

The Biden administration is looking to farmers to help alleviate global food shortfalls by planting winter wheat this fall on ground that’s coming out of the Conservation Reserve Program, but much of the acreage lies in states that are suffering from prolonged drought.

An agreement to ban food export restrictions could be in reach for the World Trade Organization after years of failing to produce a major achievement.

A farm bill program that supports the production and marketing of fruits, vegetables, nuts and other crops swelled to $97 million last year, thanks to an influx of stimulus funding. But lawmakers are being asked to expand eligibility for the program when the farm bill is up for reauthorization, and that worries some in the sector.

Agribusiness giant ADM has jumped into the cultured meat fray with its first strategic investment in the industry that will partner it with Eat Just Inc.’s GOOD Meat division.

Producers looking to make their way into organic agriculture have until October to seek financial assistance from a pair of Department of Agriculture grant programs.

The House Agriculture Committee is split along partisan lines over a Democratic bill that would create a special investigator in the Agriculture Department to look into allegations of unfair practices by meat and poultry processors.

USDA’s weekly Crop Progress report, due out this afternoon, will tell traders and policymakers whether farmers are starting to catch up on planting during a year when U.S. crops will be especially important to global food supplies.