Ben Nuelle

The Department of Agriculture lowered corn production and yield estimates in its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand report released Tuesday.

House Democrats are rolling out a series of fiscal 2020 spending bills that reject a range of White House spending cuts while challenging key Trump administration priorities and regulatory rollbacks at USDA, EPA and other agencies.

Nearly 1,688 farms and 1,716 rural businesses across 34 states have requested $522 million in grants for USDA Rural Development’s first round of funding for the ReConnect Pilot Program.

The Trump administration’s announcement of a new trade assistance package, plus congressional agreement on disaster relief for prevented plantings, will put billions of dollars into the struggling farm economy, but the prospective aid is injecting new uncertainty into the planting decisions facing growers across the soggy Plains and Midwest.

USDA plans to re-open continuous signup for the Conservation Reserve Program next week, despite demands by House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson that the department delay enrollment.

An effort to overhaul immigration laws got off to a rocky start on Capitol Hill when the White House plan developed by Jared Kushner met with a decidedly cool reception in the Senate.

A Senate bill would require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize levees and flood systems over fish and wildlife.