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A USDA announcement detailed a new way for Farm Service Agency employees to take a more proactive approach to service accruing debt as producers face challenges in meeting payment requirements.

Some farm groups are calling on Congress to allow farmers to reallocate the base acreage they have enrolled in farm programs, a move that could allow growers to increase their potential government payments.

Drought has spread into regions this fall essential to the Biden administration’s plans to boost wheat production through double cropping, but many farmers who follow the practice in their normal rotations haven’t strayed from their plans to sow winter wheat this fall.

Panel members appointed to evaluate the Food and Drug Administration’s human foods programs have their work cut out for them as they craft recommendations for FDA leadership.

Haiti has remained a major customer of U.S. rice through decades of turmoil, but that has come to an end. The implosion of the country that has descended into the chaos of gang rule and disease outbreak has made it impossible for U.S. exporters to keep supplying the country even in its time of most dire need.

Even as the Federal Reserve struggles to get inflation under control, the agriculture and energy sectors “have gained unexpected levels of pricing power” due to lingering global supply challenges, according to a quarterly report from CoBank.

Two major players in the discussion over reform of the Federal Milk Marketing Order system have come to an agreement on the need for updates, but specifics are yet to be determined.

Farmers across the country are largely ahead of schedule at getting their crops out of the field as fall and its chillier temperatures descent on farm country.

USDA is opening signup for the Dairy Margin Coverage program even as producers are seeing their first payments from DMC for this year.