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Dozens of farmers provided feedback on a North American free trade deal this week, with respondents calling for officials to use an upcoming review to address longstanding trade issues with Mexico and Canada, protect growers from lower-priced imports, and tighten enforcement.

A proposal to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act may not be finalized anytime soon, experts recently told a crowd of western producers at the Family Farm Alliance conference in Reno, Nevada.

U.S. farmer sentiment improved in October, fueled by optimism in the livestock sector, according to the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. 

The National Cooperative Bank has released its annual NCB Co-op 100 report, which ranks the nation’s top 100 revenue-earning cooperative businesses across multiple sectors. The report revealed agricultural co-ops claimed the top two spots. 

PepsiCo says it will launch a direct farmer incentive pilot program in Brazil’s Cerrado region. In collaboration with Griffith Foods and Milhão — a Brazilian company that manufactures non-GMO corn-based ingredients — the program aims to preserve the Cerrado and benefit farmers through regenerative agriculture practices.

Jordan Bonfitto, former senior adviser to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, joined Invariant’s food and agriculture practice. Dustin Winston was promoted to director of U.S. dairy business development at StoneX Group. Lindl Government Affairs hired Brad Copenhaver as a full-time director of client development. The National Pork Producers Council hired Kyle Garner as manager of congressional affairs.

ADM's profit plunge due to trade and biofuel challenges underscores broader agriculture industry woes as U.S. farmers finish up grain and oilseed harvests amid one of the worst three-year financial periods for crop growers. 

The Trump administration defended its plan to partially fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November after receiving swift criticism from Democrats and anti-hunger groups.

The Agriculture Department says it will partially fund SNAP benefits for November using a contingency fund and won't supplement that money from other sources.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered USDA to use its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance contingency fund to make payments to the approximately 42 million Americans who lost SNAP benefits on Nov. 1.