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While many growers will have until the end of March to make farm program choices, those who are interested in signing up for the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) and Stacked Income Protection Plan for Upland Cotton (STAX) must make a decision before the sales closing dates fo

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2015 ` The U.S. pet industry is in the midst of a bullish expansion phase for both pet nutrition and care, following the recession slowdown, making dogs and cats rising consumers of livestock industry and other farm and fishery products.

With the right tools, farmers can make a profit from their farm`s data, Jason Tatge, CEO and co-founder of FarMobile, a farm data storage company, told members of the American Farm Bureau Federation at the group`s recent convention in San Diego.

The agricultural industry must be more transparent about showing how things work on the farm and in the slaughterhouse, and there are `some practices we`re going to have to change,` said Temple Grandin, a professor of Animal Sciences at Colorado State University and winner

The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency`s assessment on neonicotinoid pesticide use in soybeans closes this Friday.

With the latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations under way, access for agricultural products to Japan and Canada remain among the unresolved issues, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday.

A dispute between U.S. West Coast port operators and dockworkers will continue to cost American agricultural exporters millions of dollars a day because their containers, many with perishable products, are waylaid on jam-packed docks where ship loadings are weeks in arrears.

The budget issue will be coming into sharper focus as Republicans plan how to use their control of both the Senate and House to make deeper cuts in spending. Nutrition assistance and farm programs could potentially be vulnerable to cuts, depending on how far GOP congressional leaders decid

The organizations representing the farmers who produce America`s milk and the companies that turn the milk into cheese and other foods have started preliminary discussions about overhauling the federal marketing order system that regulates milk pricing.

Although the U.S. remains the world leader in soybean production and exports, it also imports biodiesel and recent decisions by the U.S. EPA and the European Community are making matters worse, according to U.S. soybean growers.