Articles by Steve Davies

Republican state Senator Mike Flood has won the special election for the Nebraska District 1 congressional seat formerly held by Republican Jeff Fortenberry.

New Mexico dairy farmer Art Schaap, who lost nearly 4,000 of his cows due to PFAS contamination, is still waiting on a payment from the Agriculture Department under the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program even as he struggles to keep his business afloat.

Glyphosate, one of agriculture's chief inputs is not only a mainstay in the field, it's had its fair share of trips to the courtroom as well.

The Supreme Court has rejected Monsanto’s second petition seeking review of a decision that found the nation’s pesticide law does not pre-empt state-law claims that Roundup was misbranded because it did not carry a cancer warning.

USDA has sharply raised its forecast for food inflation this 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 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.