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Former President Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, but Nikki Haley says she isn’t ending her campaign.

Restricting foreign ownership of U.S. land, codifying a “right to repair" farm equipment and imposing labeling restrictions on lab-grown meat are just a few of the ideas up for debate as state legislatures across the U.S. convene for their 2024 sessions.

A slight change to the policies of the nation’s largest farm organization could open the door to more support for future immigration legislation.

Producers participating in the Organic Valley Carbon Insetting Program have begun receiving payments, the cooperative announced Tuesday.

Thirty-one lawmakers spend their time outside of the nation’s capitol farming, ranching or running cattle operations, according to a new Congressional Research Service report.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he’s against a proposal to be more restrictive with future rewrites of the Thrifty Food Plan, the calculation used to determine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Farmers and ranchers would like to see increased crop insurance subsidies and commodity price supports in the new farm bill, and a strong majority support cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, according to an exclusive Agri-Pulse producer poll.

The Food and Drug Administration has been testing an array of ideas for new front-of-package nutrition labeling requirements that are due out this summer intending to reduce diet-related diseases.

Lawmakers, beef groups and state agriculture officials are urging the Agriculture Department to reverse its recent decision to lift a long-standing ban on beef imports from Paraguay, citing concerns about the accuracy of the agency’s analysis of foot and mouth disease risks posed by the country.