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U.S. cotton growers are facing multiple long-term challenges amid their ongoing price decline, including global consumer preference for man-made fibers. Soybean exports are expected to continue their decline, as are egg prices. But U.S. protein demand should boost prospects for the dairy sector.

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 U.S. saw 70 new biogas projects come online last year, bringing the nation’s total number of facilities to nearly 2,600, according to new data released by the American Biogas Council. 

Three Mexican citizens have been indicted for “trafficking Mexican farmworkers into forced labor and harboring them in the United States after their visas expired” for financial gain, the Justice Department says.

Christy Puffenbarger was elected as chairwoman of the National Turkey Federation. The National Association of Conservation Districts board of directors elected Mark Masters of Georgia as the association’s president-elect. CropLife America hired Frank Plescia as director of state government relations. Emma Johnston joined the CFTC as a senior agriculture adviser. Kristina Aleksander joined the Association of Equipment Manufacturers as policy communications manager.

President Donald Trump has a crucial chance tonight to shore up his party’s political standing heading into the midterm elections. Trump is giving his State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress just days after expressing anger over the Supreme Court's tariff decision, which is likely to figure significantly in the speech.

The House Ag Committee’s farm bill is a victim of the weather forecast. Ahead of a winter storm Sunday, the committee postponed a meeting that was scheduled Monday to begin debate on the legislation. The debate will now take place next week.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is staunchly defending President Donald Trump’s executive order emphasizing domestic production of glyphosate while saying the administration is “accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture.”

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.