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The challenge of expanding the U.S. market for ethanol is putting a spotlight on exports of the corn-based biofuel.

A series of wildfires over the past week have scorched nearly 850,000 acres of land in Kansas and Oklahoma, impacting cattle ranchers and other agricultural producers.

The Government Accountability Office is recommending ways the federal government can improve its recordkeeping for weather modification operations.

The highly popular Environmental Quality Incentives Program would lose around $1 billion in budget authority over the next four fiscal years under the House Agriculture Committee's GOP farm bill draft, according to calculations by the Congressional Budget Office. EQIP was essentially used as a funding source for other priorities in the legislation.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says Congress needs to "step up" on E15 legislation. Rollins also touted what she said was the Trump administration's success in working to bring down farm input costs and open new ag markets.

Ray Starling challenged the crowd at USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum dinner on Thursday to contemplate what sweeping cultural trends like fewer men in the workplace might mean for American farming. 

The Agriculture Department is anticipating a slightly easier 2026 for U.S. ag producers, with prices for major commodities nudging higher and input and labor costs moderating, according to the new Chief Economist Justin Benavidez.  

As U.S. ethanol producers race to find new markets, a single slide at an agricultural gathering in Iowa this month showed three drastically different paths for corn farmers through 2034.

Experts say the Conservation Reserve Program this year is likely to see increased interest from farmers looking for a consistent source of income from their less productive acres amid a tough commodity market. 

Large-scale family farms, which have more than $1 million in annual gross cash farm income, account for 50% of U.S. agricultural production and 33% of the acres, according to 2024 data released by USDA.