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USDA is making $100 million available to fund a new Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program.

Producers are working to recover from dozens of tornadoes that tore through six different states over the weekend, including one giant storm with up to 206-mile-per-hour winds that ripped apart grain bins, destroyed poultry barns and killed at least 64 people across nine Kentucky counties.

Producers who sold hogs during 2020 could be eligible for assistance under a $50 million program rolled out Monday by the Department of Agriculture.

This is the third part of a four-part series examining the promise of cover crops, the potential for them to meet the nation’s environmental goals that rest on their success, and the possible pitfalls facing policymakers.

President Joe Biden plans to personally appeal this week to the key senator holding up the administration’s massive spending package, and the long-awaited nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration gets a hearing in the Senate.

Supermarket prices jumped 0.8% in November, pushing the inflation rate for food costs to 6.4% over the past year, the largest increase for a 12-month period since 2008. The White House claims meatpackers bear a lot of the blame.

Tyson Foods announced Monday it would be distributing $50 million in year-end bonuses to frontline and hourly team members.

The Purdue University/CME Group Ag economy barometer fell in November, as producers expressed concerns about growing production costs and fluctuating commodity prices, according to a release.

Truterra, a Land O’ Lakes subsidiary focused on sustainability, announced on Monday details about the second iteration of its carbon program, which will start in 2022.