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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is promising to pour $500 million into expanding meat processing capacity, which farm groups say will be a great start toward increasing competition in the sector and boosting livestock prices.

Food prices are expected to continue rising this year before declining to more normal levels in 2022, according to USDA's latest outlook.

U.S. poultry has only regained access to the Chinese chicken market for about a year and a half, but trade is booming and the U.S. was the number-one supplier to China in the last two months of 2020.

The Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) announced Monday that it will acquire the Serbian plant-based protein company Sojaprotein, the latest of its efforts to focus on the alternative protein market.

On July 22, the U.S. Soybean Export Council, the United Soybean Board and the American Soybean Association announced that over 100 million metric tons of U.S. Soy Sustainability Assurance Protocol verified soy had been exported internationally in the seven years since the protocol’s conception, according to the two groups.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court’s summary judgement in favor of the beef checkoff.

Archer Daniels Midland Co. reported net earnings of $712 million for its second quarter on Tuesday, a 27% increase from the same period the year prior.

Six groups have filed suit against the Agriculture Department over regulations the Trump administration issued last year to streamline the regulation of gene-edited crop traits and allow companies to decide whether their products need USDA approval.

Republicans and Democrats both say they are close to wrapping up the final details of a bipartisan infrastructure package for the Senate to consider.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sparred with Republican senators Wednesday over a House-passed bill that would create a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers, and the squabble showcased the divisions that have prevented Congress from passing immigration reform legislation for decades.