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The fight for E15 is redrawing battle lines between ag and fossil fuels, with the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee caught in the crosshairs. 

The safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is once again at the forefront of the debate over FIFRA preemption, which pits the Make America Healthy Again movement and environmental groups against hundreds of farm organizations.

Duane Simpson, who took over as president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives last year, talks about the structural challenges facing agriculture, including the shifts in nutrition policy and messaging that resulted from the MAHA movement.

Solvency in the farm sector is expected to weaken this year as farmers turn to debt to make it through a challenging farm economy.

When Iowa farmer and crop insurance agent Pat Swanson was named to lead USDA’s Risk Management Agency in March of 2025, she developed a list of things she thought should be streamlined and improved. Within weeks, she started checking things off at a speed which seems almost unheard of for such a large federal agency that supports risk management from coast to coast.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Kip Tom is warning that new European sanctions could roil global fertilizer markets and create an “unintended crisis” for U.S. ag.

U.S. grain storage capacity has stalled since 2020 after two decades of growth, according to a University of Illinois analysis.

A Florida man pleaded guilty to conspiracy for his role in a scheme to produce and sell fraudulent renewable fuel credits, known as RINs.

D.C. Legislative and Regulatory Services promoted Laurie Flanagan to president and David Beaudreau as executive vice president. David Crow, founder of the firm, will continue working full-time and transition into the role of strategic adviser. Matt Herrick is the next president and chief executive officer for the International Bottled Water Association.

The Agriculture Department on Thursday announced opening dates for continuous and general signups for the Conservation Reserve Program, which has around 1.9 million acres of available space this year.