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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 16, 2025
A new Agriculture Department report projects the nation’s corn producers will still be able to top 15 billion bushels of nationwide production even as stretches of the heartland face dry weather that will lower yields.
The Department of Agriculture and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are teaming up to improve ag and earth science research and technology while also working to inspire young people to seek careers in STEM and agriculture.
The Biden administration has issued the first approvals for cell-cultivated meat production in the United States, offering the green light for two companies to start producing chicken for human consumption.
USDA is bringing on six individuals who will hold senior staff positions and promoting two at the department and President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jeffrey Prescott as the U.S. representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and Summer Mersinger as commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
There has been a steep drop-off in detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) across the country compared to last year's peaks, but USDA officials and poultry industry groups have no plans to relax precautions.
USDA Trade Undersecretary Alexis Taylor is set to lead a mission to Japan next week, offering American government and private-sector officials the chance to work directly with the fourth-largest foreign market for U.S. food and agricultural exports.
A Department of Agriculture proposal to outline conditions for beef to enter the U.S. market from Paraguay is being met with stiff opposition from groups representing American producers.
Eight years after ground was first broken for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, government officials gathered Wednesday to celebrate the facility’s official opening.
