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Wisconsin native Kelliann Blazek has been brought on to the Biden administration as a special assistant to the president for agriculture and rural policy, and Sonny Perdue joins the board of directors at Kalera.

The Missouri Farm Bureau selected Garrett Hawkins as its 15th president Sunday, becoming one of the youngest Farm Bureau presidents in the nation with deep roots in Missouri agriculture.

Americans are cutting back on Thanksgiving plans because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the good news for consumers is that prices for the turkey and some of the trimmings will be lower.

The Agriculture Department is ditching a change in commodity program subsidy eligibility rules that would have unintentionally made it harder for some members of family farming operations to qualify for payments, a top official says.

Landowners and producers enrolled in 21.9 million acres of the Conservation Reserve Program should begin receiving $1.68 billion in annual rental payments, the Department of Agriculture said Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that it will create 10 Farm Service Agency county committees devoted to urban agriculture to better understand and support the field.

Producers across the country are enrolling in the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, and they’re doing so with the help of employees that are either teleworking or back in the office for the first time in months.

The Department of Agriculture will start offering landowners and farmers a chance to enroll in 30-year Conservation Reserve Program contracts starting in July.

USDA says a record 1.77 million contracts were signed by producers for the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2019 crop year.

The Farm Service Agency is “relaxing” its loan-making process as the nation works to cope with travel and interpersonal restrictions brought about by the coronavirus outbreak.