Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that the USDA and other agencies are working on short-term measures to help lower fertilizer costs and that an announcement could come soon. She said addressing fertilizer prices will require a significant, coordinated...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service is seeking nominees for the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board to fill five seats with terms expiring in December 2026. Five seats available The call for nominees is part of the AMS oversight role for commodit...

AgriFood Signals: a run-down of the latest U.S.-focused agtech funding, deals and policy moves. The bulletin highlights a major USDA agreement with Palantir, fresh venture capital for grocery AI and a corporate carbon-credit purchase tied to rice farming. Industry funding rounds, M&A and sustaina...

USDA’s bridge program for row crop producers has delivered substantial aid as farm finances deteriorate. The department set aside $11 billion for row crops within the broader bridge package, and FSA reports that $9.6 billion disbursed has gone to approved applica...

A group of Midwestern row-crop growers told reporters they face tight finances and a looming generational squeeze if courts or regulators restrict access to glyphosate-based herbicides. On a media call hosted by the Modern Ag Alliance, three veteran farmers linked herbicide availability to conser...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) this month reintroduced the America Grows Act, a bipartisan bill that would require a 5% annual increase plus inflation each year for the next 10 years for research activities at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Both sena...

For years U.S. livestock producers have been measured against generic global averages that often understate the efficiencies of modern domestic production. The Meat Institute released a report in April 2026 titled Emissions Factors Brief that lays out methods for companies to doc...

Joe Petrocco, a fourth-generation vegetable grower in Brighton, Colorado, says the spring planting season comes with mixed pressure: soaring input costs and a welcome drop in labor expenses. Federal changes to the H-2A temporary farmworker wage calculation will reduce pay in many places by a thir...

Spray drones are already a common sight on many U.S. farms, but their role is expanding well beyond pesticide and fertilizer application. With lower equipment prices and improving sensors, operators are adding crop-health scouting, infrastructure inspections and even small-part delivery to the li...

Buried in the USDA's proposed FY2027 budget is a table listing four Agricultural Research Service locations marked for closure and relocation, including the Urbana, Illinois, site that houses two critical collections. USDA proposes relocations of the National Soybean Germplasm Co...

Kansas State University economist Gregg Ibendahl warns that rising oil prices are already pushing key farm input costs higher, and could add significant expense for grain operations this year. Ibendahl estimated that a move to $90 per barrel of oil would add more than $1 per gallon at the pump an...

A broad coalition of farmers, veterinarians and federal and state officials is pressing Congress to include language in the farm bill that would protect U.S. pork producers from California’s Proposition 12. Advocates say the measure has created a patchwork state laws problem and ...

The National Corn Growers Association’s president Jed Bower accused several large energy firms of trying to derail a Farm Bill amendment that would allow Year-round E15 sales . Bower, an Ohio farmer and NCGA president, said the companies are posing as small refineries to secure ex...

Farmers for Free Trade executive director Brian Kuehl says he is optimistic the United States can reach a trade deal with India after a delegation spent this week in the United States negotiating. Kuehl told Brownfield the talks are underway but that the negotiating text has not been made public,...

Relentless Kona Low storms this spring dumped enormous rainfall across Hawaii, leaving the state's agricultural sector badly damaged and fields saturated. Some locations recorded more than 30 inches of rain during the March event, and University of Hawaii observers logged localized totals up to 6...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has stepped up investigations across agriculture, with a heavy focus on meatpacking and other concentrated input markets. Investigators are examining how fed cattle supplies are gathered and routed through the industry, and whether major packers...