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The rail crossings at Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, are open again after a five-day closure that had halted grain shipments.

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have finalized a new set of merger guidelines that lay out the framework the two agencies will use when investigating future mergers. 

A bipartisan group of senators and House members is urging the International Trade Commission to consider farmer voices as it decides what to do about Moroccan phosphate imports.

Supermarket prices rose just 0.1% in November as lower costs for beef, pork and poultry offset higher prices for fruits, vegetables, cereals and bakery products, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.

USDA on Friday slightly lowered its estimates for global ending stocks of corn and soybeans as well as its forecast for U.S. corn supplies.

Global demand requires that the world add more than 20 million acres to crop production over the next five years, agricultural economist Dan Basse told attendees of the American Seed Trade Association’s annual field crop convention in Orlando Wednesday.