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The Agriculture Department is shifting the way it promotes the Conservation Reserve Program, placing greater emphasis on allowing farmers to use enrolled land for haying and grazing, according to recent comments by Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux.

Tyson Foods, one of the country’s largest meat companies, is reporting net earnings per share of $2.87 for the latest quarter, up 48% for the same period a year earlier.

Growers of the nation’s broiler chickens say there should be plenty of wings and dummies available for hungry football fans watching Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup.

The Biden administration is launching the application process for a $1 billion program that will test ways farms of all sizes can profit from the low-carbon commodities they produce through practices that cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Minority farmers and producers considered to be historically underserved by federal programs, including beginning farmers, received less than 4% of the payments provided by the Trump administration’s Market Facilitation Program, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association voted Wednesday to specifically state their opposition to cash trade mandates, adding clarity to an explicit part of a bill being pushed by a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill.

JBS has agreed to settle claims it conspired to limit supply in the beef market in order to drive up prices, which could spur other settlements in the lawsuit also brought against Tyson, Cargill and National Beef.

An expansion of the WIC nutrition program aimed at boosting the sale of fruits and vegetables to low-income women and young children is at stake as USDA considers changes to how the program benefits can be used.

The Food and Drug Administration is out with a list of guidance documents related to food it expects to publish over the next year, addressing issues ranging from the safety of gene-edited plants and cell-cultured foods to the labeling of plant-based dairy alternatives.