Agri-Pulse staff

Farmers took advantage of the warm, dry weather to plant early this year. With timely rainfall giving the plants a good start, farmers are on pace to set new record highs in 2012, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The national corn crop is now 96% planted

Monsanto Company announced it reached an agreement to purchase planting technology developer Precision Planting, Inc., a proven leader in improving yields through on-farm planting performance

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and its partners will invest nearly $32 million this year in financial and technical assistance for five water quality and wetlands improvement projects in seven Mississippi River Basin (MRB)

Collegiate FFA, a program of the National FFA Organization, is now accepting applications for its National Collegiate Agricultural Ambassador program

National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson sent a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler today urging the chairman to establish a 30-day public comment period to discuss the extension of electronic commodity trading up to 22 hours per day

The United States is not sustaining its historically strong investments in biomedical research that once propelled it to global life sciences leadership, while other nations are increasing their investments in the field, stated a report released by United for Medical Research (UMR) and The Informat

Forty four senators call for farm bill floor debate in the Senate

In a letter to the House Committee on Agriculture today, Congressmen John Garamendi (Calif.) and Jerry McNerney (Calif.) and Congresswoman Lois Capps (Calif.), and 29 of their colleagues in the California Congressional Delegation detailed their priorities for the 2012 Farm Bill.

Strong farm incomes continued to fuel demand for Tenth District farmland, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s quarterly Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions.

President Obama today announced the implementation of the U.S-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement