Some of the workers on Matt Emerick’s farm have a pretty long commute.
It’s not all about “the wall.” It’s not even all about the border or security. The immigration debate in America is also about agriculture and…
Ever since the pandemic began, shortages have become commonplace with significant effects in nearly every sector, including agriculture.
President Joe Biden’s sweeping executive order promoting competition across American industries aims to give a boost to farmers whose profits …
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Using his words, Iowa’s Republican U.S. senators are holding President Joe Biden accountable for his earlier commitments …
The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs against the country's la…
Farmers and scientists are working to reduce greenhouse gas emission from cattle.
The Growing Climate Solutions Act, initially drafted in 2020, was reintroduced to the Senate on April 20, 2021. The bill cleared the Senate Ag…
Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism of assertions from small oil refineries that they should be allowed to extend lapsed waivers from m…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Expanding market access to Vietnam, visa reform to address a livestock agriculture labor shortage and foreign animal diseas…
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller submitted an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the biofuels industry’s challenge of three f…
Senate Democrats are circulating a plan that would trigger tax bills on the assets of the wealthy after they die as the lawmakers seek new sou…
Less than a week after his confirmation, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke online with leaders of the National Farmers Union dur…
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack used his first press conference as secretary to announce the USDA would invest $42.3 million to help…
A month after Joe Biden was sworn in as 46th president of the United States, farmers are starting to get a better picture of who comprises his…
China isn’t the only game in town when it comes to trade.
The best of eastern and western blackberry genetics have been melded to create Eclipse, Galaxy and Twilight, three new blackberry varieties re…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved a genetically modified pig for food and medical products, making it the second such animal to ge…
Government assistance to farmers hit a record high this year.
Zippy Duvall is the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Duvall is a farmer from Georgia, where his family has a 400-head beef co…
The availability of some farm labor has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, although many farmers haven’t seen much of a change this year.…
It won’t be long before agricultural leaders may be asking a simple question: Can you pass a farm bill without farmers?
To say the 2020 presidential election between Republican incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden has been heated and contro…
Farmers are resilient, but that resiliency is being tested by challenges on the trade front, according to several Iowa and national agricultur…
Logistical hurdles stemming from the coronavirus pandemic are starting to pile up, hampering the flow of food that’s otherwise plentiful in wa…
The rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic is raising growing concerns about the virus and our reaction to it causing a significant downturn in th…
The coronavirus and cheap oil are hitting the fuel business so hard that ethanol plants are shutting down. Some may never come back.
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