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The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is standing up a new “center of excellence” in an effort to reduce use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer by 12%, the equivalent of removing 10 million cars from the road.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he wants the Senate to pass the massive Build Back Better bill by the end of the month.

This is the first part of a four-part series examining the promise of cover crops, the potential for them to meet the nation’s environmental goals that rest on their success, and the potential pitfalls and unintended consequences of trying to make cover crops work in parts of the country where they currently don’t.

Lawmakers are returning from their Thanksgiving recess for what is shaping up to be a crucial December for President Joe Biden’s agenda.

Democrats hope to get President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill to the finish line in December, but first they face a more urgent stalemate with Republicans ahead of Friday’s expiration of a stopgap funding bill.

Mexico appears to be moving quickly to prepare for an influx of U.S. potatoes and U.S. farmers are already looking forward to increased sales across the southern border, says National Potato Council CEO Kam Quarles.

The U.S. Court of International Trade has agreed to take into consideration arguments by five major U.S. farm groups against a decision this year by the U.S. International Trade Commission to allow tariffs to be placed on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco and Russia.

The Department of Agriculture is offering a fresh round of funding through its ReConnect program aimed at expanding broadband availability in rural areas.

The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are aiming to use the agriculture provisions in the Build Back Better bill to jump-start farmers’ work on climate-related farming practices and potentially create permanently higher levels of funding for conservation programs.

President Joe Biden’s effort to amass partners for challenging China is taking shape, and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is working to rekindle ties with historical allies such as Japan, the European Union and the United Kingdom while forging new bonds with countries such as India and Vietnam.