Articles by Noah Wicks

With Congress heading into a showdown over the federal debt ceiling, farm groups are staking their claim for funding for the next farm bill.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is requesting $7.4 billion for its Fiscal Year 2024 budget, but shipping and port groups are concerned the agency is not planning to put enough of its trust funds for construction and maintenance projects to use.

The feral hogs began to show up at Tommy Henderson’s north Texas farm in the early 1990s. By 2002, they were “everywhere.” Henderson still can’t get rid of them.

The battle over food assistance work requirements is picking up with a new Republican proposal from Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., who plans to drop a bill today to increase the age limit for SNAP work requirements.

Friday’s failure of Silicon Valley Bank took down an investor in agriculture innovation, climate-related technology and wineries.

The Biden administration is calling on Congress to make permanent a $5-an-acre payment program for cover crops that USDA offered in 2021 and 2022.

The farm bill commodity title is the focus of discussions in Orlando this week at Commodity Classic, the annual meeting of grain and soybean producers.

After more than two years of discussion and more than 130 meetings, the National Milk Producers Federation Board of Directors unanimously endorsed a comprehensive plan to correct shortcomings exacerbated during the pandemic regarding pricing regulations for milk.

Capitol Hill lawmakers are enthused by the first step taken Monday in a lengthy process that could lead to a dispute panel under USMCA challenging Mexico’s efforts to block genetically modified corn imports from the U.S.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is in California today, where he is expected to announce another series of efforts to improve competition in agribusiness and address a meat labeling issue that has dogged the agency for years.