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The Senate confirms a package of nearly 100 nominees to fill administration positions, including the top ag negotiator and three of President Donald Trump's picks for the Agriculture Department.

When the Cordi family lost nearly 70% of its almond orchards in a 2008 windstorm, they decided to pursue a long-held dream: owning and operating a winery. They began replanting with grapes.

Representatives from Tractor Supply company and 30 young 4-Hers rang the Nasdaq opening bell Monday to celebrate $25 million raised through the Paper Clover campaign. 

Republican farm-state senators say row crop growers are likely to need additional aid beyond the Trump administration's newly announced $12 billion "bridge" payment program, and specialty crop producers say the package shortchanges them.

When heavy rains flooded pastures in East Hardwick, Maine, in July 2023, rancher Ben Nottermann couldn’t reach his livestock for days.

President Donald Trump will unveil an assistance package for farmers worth $12 billion this afternoon, a White House official tells Agri-Pulse.

After a dramatic withdrawal of support from a key ethanol bill in October, the American Petroleum Institute is once again teaming up with ethanol stakeholders to push the Trump administration and Congress to help get the legislation over the finish line. And in a new development, the groups also are united in asking for a revamping of policy that allows small refiners to seek exemption from biofuel-blending rules. 

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is once again spreading through poultry flocks across the U.S., but on a smaller scale than past outbreaks. Still, experts warn that an uptick in cases could occur this winter.

Using renewable fuels to power heavy farm machinery never took off during the initial surge in U.S. biodiesel and ethanol production. Now, with electric vehicles, including tractors, threatening liquid fuels, there's optimism that more home-grown fuels will soon stay on the farm.

It’s been a rocky year for food companies, agribusiness firms, ag lenders and farmers navigating the seismic shift in policies coming out of Washington when it comes to environmental policy, even as much of the farm economy is mired in a multiyear slump. But many companies are pressing forward with their environmental goals and testing new ways of financing changes in farming practices.