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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 23, 2025
USDA has issued one-time payments to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners across the country who experienced discrimination in farm loan programs or did not equitable access to federal resources prior to the start of the Biden administration. In all, $2.2 billion has been disbursed.
In this opinion piece, Kip Eideberg, Senior Vice President of Government & Industry Relations at AEM, spotlights the benefits of precision agriculture for farmers and our planet.
Recent rains have brought some relief to producers reeling from drought in the Midwest, though many are hoping more will arrive to help usher their crops through the rest of the growing season.
When farmers get together to talk, there’s sure to be conversations about the weather, the markets, and how the crops are doing. Lately, here in Iowa, our conversations keep coming back to circles. No, we’re not talking in circles; we’re noticing the circles of life inherent to our farms—and critical for our future.
Speaking at California Farm Bureau's annual meeting, President Jamie Johansson called for giving farmers and ranchers more predictability and tools that enable efficient food production as a way to ensure their sustainability and that consumers have a reliable food supply.
Whether it's backlogs at ports delaying the arrival of containers from China, congestion at railroad hubs, or slowdowns at American manufacturing plants, farmers and ranchers are seeing rising prices and mounting delays for machinery, spare parts, packaging material, inputs and other supplies they need to bring in their crops and market their commodities.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan on Monday offered an updated timeline for the Biden administration's efforts to write a new regulation aimed at defining a "water of the United States."
In this opinion piece, Blake Hurst a farmer and greenhouse grower in Northwest Missouri discusses his perspective on how the food system dialogue should occur.
A new Colorado labor law, which includes specifics on overtime pay and the use of hand-weeding, has passed the Colorado Senate and will be heard by the House State, Civic, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee on Thursday, June 3.
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