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Global agricultural productivity will need to see an average annual increase of 1.73% if the world is to sustainably produce enough food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy for 10 billion people in 2050, according to an annual report.

America’s foreign agricultural assistance provides significant domestic benefits by boosting demand for U.S. exports while making more food available to U.S. consumers and helping to guard against the import of pests and diseases, a new report says.

Agricultural giant CHS Inc. is the largest cooperative in the nation and had more than twice the revenue of any other co-op in 2018, the National Cooperative Bank reports.

Congress returns from a two-week break with the deepening impeachment battle clouding prospects for budget and tax issues important to U.S. .agriculture, and there is continued uncertainty about when lawmakers will take up the U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade agreement.

Department of Agriculture officials are grappling with producer skepticism along with privacy and inadequate publicity concerns as signup for 2020 Dairy Margin Coverage begins.

An investigation of beef pricing practices in the aftermath of a Kansas slaughterhouse fire could be finished by the end of the year, a top USDA official says. 

USDA programs to boost fresh produce consumption and local food marketing are still stumbling toward release of FY 2019 grant funds.

Dean Foods says it plans to leave the International Dairy Foods Association, saying one of the company’s key priorities – how to approach plant-based dairy alternatives using traditional nomenclature – is “no longer shared by the entire IDFA organization.”

As much as growers long for an end to the trade war with China, there are long-term threats to demand for corn, soybeans and other crops that could depress commodity prices for years to come and lead to calls for higher government spending, economists say.

Beef and pork stole much of the spotlight when President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed off on a trade pact last week, but many of the U.S. winners will be American specialty crop farmers.