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The number of unfilled grain car orders shot up 231% during the second quarter of this year, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis of government data.

Dicamba damage to soybeans, trees, ornamentals and other plants is back again this season, and a leading seed developer is asking growers to send proof.

A jury in Colorado has acquitted five poultry executives of price-fixing of broiler chicken products from 2012 through 2019.

A key measure of international food commodity prices declined for the third straight month in June but remained close to the record set in March.

When it comes to ending hunger, the world is going in the wrong direction, according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations that called for “repurposing” agricultural subsidies toward the development of nutritious foods.

Russian military advances are threatening fields in southern and eastern Ukraine that are some of the most fertile in the country and the country's primary growing regions for winter wheat, according to market analysts and researchers.

Improving plants’ efficiency at using solar energy could offer a path toward increasing the amount of food produced per indoor acre. That’s what researchers have found, though the process shakes up the biology normally associated with plant growth.

Inflation across every sector of the food industry has left companies with the choice: to raise prices or hold steady and shrink the volume of food offered, a process called shrinkflation.

Farmers are increasingly worried about their current and future financial health, according to the latest monthly Ag Economy Barometer sponsored by Purdue University and the CME Group.