Sara Wyant

Tobacco quota owners and growers are increasingly worried that USDA might trim their 2014 TTPP payments by more than seven percent as part of sequestration – undercutting the financial stability of thousands of farmers and their lenders.

Although the final tally will not be known until all absentee ballots are counted, Washington voters were largely rejecting Initiative 522 on Tuesday night – a measure that would have mandated labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods on the front of packages containing GM ingredients.

North Dakotans and Canadians share a border and lots of common interests, but when it comes to Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL), at least one former North Dakotan – who now serves as President of the National Farmers Union – has had enough of hearing about how Canadians think Americans should gove

USDA?s Risk Management Agency (RMA) released their harvest price levels today, allowing growers who purchased revenue assurance with the harvest price option to compare with spring-projected prices and estimate whether or not they may be eligible for insurance claims.

National and state farm organizations may disagree on many specific parts of a new farm bill, but over 250 of them sent a unified letter to Capitol Hill today in support of passing a new five-year bill

Commodity Classic and AG CONNECT Expo & Summit plan to partner for a joint event in 2016

Tony Blair and Howard Buffet announce new 40 chances fellows program to address poverty and hunger in Africa.

Agricultural productivity is growing and on pace to meet the demands of a growing, hungry world for now, but several challenges remain – especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and other less developed countries, according to a new report released just prior to the World Food Prize Symposium here.

As the federal government heads into “week two” of the shutdown, USDA changed course and decided that some Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) employees are now “essential” and will be allowed to return to work

Farm organizations and commodity groups decided to appeal a September 13 court decision,