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"Ope… let me scoot past ya here to buy up some of your farmland." – Developers in the Midwest Picking up losses:  Farmland loss in the...

Funds for farmers to keep farming—but with less water—are headed west.  Down pour load :  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an...

A recent USDA study  highlighted changes  in the U.S. dairy industry.  Facing the  moo-sic: The number of dairy farms are declining. Yet...

The Biden administration is  making it rain  with  $2B  in direct payments for Black and other minority farmers who have faced...

Researchers in Texas A&M University’s AgriLife Research program are finding more ways to make plants more resilient to drought, disease,...

CRISPR technology is here to stay—and it’s making a splash in produce. Pairwise  is a food and ag company specializing in gene editing...

USDA’s Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is trying to gobble up salmonella .  Hatching a new plan: A proposed rule released by...

"America’s food security is national security." That was Senator Mike Braun (IN) speaking about his newly introduced legislation —The...

Ag and biofuel groups sent up smoke signals in an outcry against the EPA’s final ruling for vehicle emissions. The groups say the final...

The cattle industry is beefing up its efforts to fight fatal viruses.  The rundown: A researcher from Louisiana State University...

Americans have the meats .  Eighty percent of Americans call themselves meat eaters, while 98% of households purchase meat. Households...

Puff up your chest, greater sage-grouse: you’re getting your limelight! Strut your stuff: The greater sage-grouse, the largest grouse...

Feeling sustainable? You might consider a main course that’s a little… different. If it doesn’t bite (or squeeze) you first. Plating up...

New research from the University of California, Davis found that an explosion of invasive plants is possible even decades or centuries...

Cows could give Big Pharma a run for its money.   Researchers at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture and the Universidade...

The FAFSA Simplification Act, which passed in December 2020, is creating complexities that concern college-bound farm kids. The previous...

The future of soybean farming is now. In what’s being called an " agricultural breakthrough ," the EPA has given Meristem Crop...

ICYMI: One of the largest issues the agricultural industry faces is labor shortages. And those problems have persisted, even as the...

ICYMI: The latest Ag Census is out. Good news - Bushel gave us their recap of agricultural demographics and trends. Bushel (a software...

The next generation of farmers is struggling to secure land. It turns out that "living offa the fatta the lan’" (thank you, Lennie; Of...