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NCBA is pleased that USMCA makes no major changes to the market access provisions that have made the U.S. beef and cattle industry a powerhouse in North America. Let’s keep a great thing going.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released their much-anticipated analysis of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) yesterday, and the upshot for U.S. food and agriculture was a clear win.

If you’d like to see changes in conservation practice standards, now’s your chance. Until April 25, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting comments as part of its review of conservation practice standards mandated by the 2018 Farm Bill and designed to improve the standards and increase flexibility.

In the past 25 years, our world has cut hunger, poverty, and malnutrition in half and lifted a billion people out of poverty.

We are on the cusp of a critical leap forward in agriculture related to data. This advancement will provide critical information to farmers who are working continuously to produce more using fewer resources. Improved data analysis will also help us extract meaning from data already being collected but not being utilized to its fullest potential. We know many on-farm practices are benefiting the environment, and this data could help verify them.

The Farm Bill is done. Now it’s on to Child Nutrition Reauthorization, hopefully.

America’s farmers and ranchers work day-in and day-out to put food on our plates, but they are facing a world of challenges.

A farm is a great teacher. Like so many rural kids, my education was augmented and illustrated on my family’s farm in western Nebraska.

Imagine the backlash the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would get if it dragged its regulatory heels on approving the process of editing the human genome to cure colon cancer by insisting that edits be approved separately for each race, nationality and other arbitrary group of people.

It was the fall of 1928 when 33 boys from 18 states convened during the American Royal livestock show in Kansas City with an idea. They created what was known as the Future Farmers of America.