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Executives with oilseed giant Bunge say the growing global demand for biofuels will continue to support the soybean sector for some time.

The Agriculture Department has launched an online tool that will streamline the farm loan application with an eye toward ensuring more equitable treatment of producers.

Despite some improvement from a week ago, record-low water levels are continuing to hinder grain transportation on the Mississippi River, leaving farmers with fewer alternatives for getting their crops onto barges to export.

Archer Daniels Midland company CEO Juan Ricardo Luciano said in the company’s third-quarter earnings call Tuesday that low water levels on the Mississippi River will likely reduce soy exports from North America.

The FIRA USA robotics connected innovators with farmers to find new approaches for designing and marketing the next generation of tech for specialty crops.

CARB is considering yet another regulation on converting vehicles to zero-emission engines. But ag and trucking groups are raising alarms over costs, lagging technology and inadequate charging infrastructure.

Mark Munger has been hired as the senior director of marketing for Ocean Mist Farms and Ken Melban has been elevated to vice president of industry affairs and operations at the California Avocado Commission.

Mexico has not publicly ruled on genetically modified plant traits in the four years since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power, but the country’s health regulator Cofepris has been quietly approving and rejecting traits with an apparent bias against glyphosate-resistant corn seeds, according to U.S. government and industry sources.

Farmers and ranchers who bought crop insurance across the Plains and West are finding that it’s going to make a big difference to their bottom lines due to the drought that plagued the region through the growing season.

Ukrainian farmers are doing their best to keep farming and producing food in their war-torn country, but the outlook is growing increasingly bleak. At least that’s the perspective from Indiana farmer Kip Tom, who toured farms, cities and the port of Odesa last week as part of a humanitarian effort.