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USDA has sharply raised its forecast for food inflation this year.

A California representative said his state needs short term funding and long-term investments to support farmers struggling with drought.

A bill headed to the White House will extend a series of waivers ensuring the availability of meals for kids during the summer and upcoming school year.

Lawmakers are well into their preparatory hearings for writing the next farm bill. But a veteran Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee suggests the bill’s fate is going to hinge on whether lawmakers come up with more funding for it.

The House Appropriations Committee advanced a $27.2 billion spending bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration that would provide significant new funding for conservation technical assistance, rural broadband and food safety.

The Biden administration is getting pressure from Capitol Hill to continue those $5-an-acre payments to farmers who plant cover crops.

Today marks a milestone in a long-running battle over the livestock industry and efforts to weaken the power of large processors.

Many farm groups are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to exempt agriculture from proposed requirements that corporations start disclosing the greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains.

New technology with a Department of Agriculture stamp of approval could offer speedy help to hog producers hit by emerging disease outbreaks. And beef producers may soon see the benefits as well.

USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is collecting comments on a proposed rule and an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking related to poultry grower contracts and the use of a tournament-style system that ranks producers and impacts how much they get paid.