Steve Davies

The tough economic times agriculture currently faces could last for almost another decade, an ag economist told the American Seed Trade Association Tuesday in Chicago.

State pesticide regulators gave EPA an earful on the agency’s new dicamba registration at a meeting this week in Virginia, telling an official involved with the development of new labels for the herbicide they’re still confused about some aspects of the requirements.

The Trump administration’s trade policy lacks clear direction and goals, a top ag negotiator during the Obama years said Tuesday.

A federal climate change report released the day after Thanksgiving includes a menu of what U.S. farmers can expect over the coming decades: higher temperatures, heavier and more frequent rains, and yield losses.

The online food store seems like any other grocery site: The five-pound wheel of Blue Stilton cheese is no longer in stock, but there’s still plenty of beef, chicken, basmati rice, apples, Yukon Gold potatoes, yogurt, and a host of other foodstuffs available, all part of a plan to cut food waste.

Agricultural banks are generally doing well, but they need to keep a close eye on their portfolios as financial pressures continue to increase in farm country, federal and state regulators told a group of attendees at the National Agricultural Bankers Conference in Omaha Tuesday.

Democrats picked up a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives but also several governorships.

State officials and university weed scientists are combing through EPA documents to get a handle on the agency’s new requirements for application of dicamba during next year’s growing season.