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India’s subsidized wheat and rice stockpiling has made the country’s government a foe of U.S. wheat and rice farmers, but now the country’s prime minister is trying to use the farming crisis in Ukraine to justify its efforts to prop up domestic farmers by saying it could come to the rescue of grain-deprived countries.

Representatives for the nation’s dairy producers and processors say New York City Mayor Eric Adams made the right decision by upholding a policy to allow flavored milks to be served in the city’s public schools.

America’s national bird has not been immune to a recent string of highly pathogenic avian influenza infections, according to Agriculture Department data tracking the outbreak.

New York State’s proposal to reduce the overtime threshold for ag workers from 60 to 40 hours per week is meeting resistance from farm employers.

Two GOP House lawmakers Monday introduced a bill aimed at easing supply chain backlogs called the SHIP IT Act, while negotiations over the Ocean Shipping Reform Act continue in the House.

Shipments of U.S. poultry are getting caught up in delays at Mexico’s border after Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered increased inspections of north-bound trucks, spurring protests by Mexican truckers who blocked southbound traffic.

Ukrainian farmers are struggling to export their corn, wheat and sunflower oil on railcars, trucks and river transportation along the western border, but not much is making it out through Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, according to a new report released Wednesday out of the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.

A rare moment of unity occurred in Washington Tuesday as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle heaped praise on President Joe Biden for allowing summertime sales of E15.

Cuba has struggled for decades to feed its people, but because of U.S. sanctions and the impacts of the COVID pandemic, the country is becoming more desperate to buy U.S. grain and meat.