Agri-Pulse staff

In a letter to House and Senate Agriculture Committee leadership last week, 44 organizations urged passage of the Farm Bill and inclusion of key rural development policy changes and funding that will be lost in any extension.

Fiscal 2013 agricultural exports are projected at a record $143.5 billion, according to USDA’s quarterly Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade report forecasting exports for fiscal years 2012 and 2013.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced more than $18 million in grants to organizations across 24 states

A new study shows that conservation practices have made great strides in reducing pollutant losses from cultivated cropland in the Missouri River Basin.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a two-month extension for emergency grazing on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres, freeing up forage and feed for ranchers as they look to recover from this challenging time.

While China’s demand for feed ingredients makes it an important market for U.S. distillers’ dried grains (DDGS) exports, the volume of U.S. DDGS exported to China in the future is highly uncertain, according to a USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) report published this month.

Monsanto announced at the Farm Progress Show on Tuesday that its education program chose 176 school districts in 35 states to receive grants of up to $25,000.

USDA’s Crop Progress report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released Monday confirmed the continuing early harvest season. Six percent of the corn is harvested in the 18 most corn producing states so far this season, while the average for the time of year is approximately

A week after pulling federal inspectors out of Central Valley Meat at Hanford, Calif., effectively shutting it down, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service allowed the plant to reopen Monday