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Industry analysts say consumers should not expect egg prices to return to lower levels due to the sustained impact of the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak, which is proving worse than the one experienced in 2014-15.

Farmers across the central and southern Plains are drawing down the underground reserves they have long relied on to irrigate their corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat. A Kansas state agency wants to do something about the problem and is calling for that state to end a policy of "planned depletion.

Speakers at a recent White House listening session pleaded with the Biden administration to modernize U.S. regulatory oversight of gene-edited plant products to compete with other countries that have streamlined processes allowing for quicker approval.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is nearing the completion of a five-year pilot surveillance program to monitor antimicrobial resistance and will establish a permanent surveillance program.

The farm bill, environmental regulations and workforce development are among the priorities for the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture in 2023.

Dairy giant Danone wants to slash its dairy emissions through the use of technologies and partnerships, a goal the company says it plans to implement across the 20 countries where it does business.

The Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Republican Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, has kicked off his work on the next farm bill, even though the panel isn’t officially organized yet.

There are growing concerns in some quarters of agriculture about the use of environmental justice concerns in regulating farmers.