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The fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded,” that examines the nation's conservation delivery system and the challenges facing farmers in getting the advice they need to select, plan and implement new practices. University efforts to craft classes and degree programs that appeal to a wider range of students may be making it harder for USDA to hire the soil conservationists needed to help farmers.

In this opinion piece, Floyd Vergara, senior policy adviser at Clean Fuels Alliance America, says biofuels have been responsible for a substantial amount of emission reductions under California's low carbon fuel standard and they need to continue to be supported in the next phase. 

Ethanol plant operators are heavily funding a campaign to protect a new South Dakota law they believe will ease the construction of a carbon dioxide pipeline across the state.

The Southern Farmers Financial Association is being established by the Biden administration to help small farmers in high-poverty areas of the South get access to capital.

USDA plans to sample milk in states where dairy herds have been infected with avian flu, in an effort to stamp out the virus, which was first confirmed in Texas in March before spreading to herds in 14 states.

The hog industry says the U.S. pork supply is safe following detection of H5N1 in a pig from a backyard farm in Oregon, but concerns remain about possible mutations in the virus.

Thirteen World Food Prize laureates, including 2024 honoree Geoffrey Hawtin, issued a statement Wednesday calling global hunger the “big issue being overlooked” in U.S. elections.

Avian influenza has been detected in a pig for the first time in the United State, USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories has confirmed.

FDA's Human Foods Program released its 2025 Priority Deliverables today, which details the primary focuses for its first year under the reorganization. Highlights include a goal to issue guidance on action levels for lead in food intended for infants and young children, finalizing the rule on the “healthy” claim and proposing a rule on front of package nutrition labeling. 

Nine Republican lawmakers are seeking additional insight into the USDA’s $45.6 million investment in Pure Prairie Poultry, which closed early this month, and the steps the agency has taken to help growers.