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Less than one-fourth of U.S. dairy farmers appear to be eligible for payments from the new insurance-like Dairy Margin Protection Program (DMPP) if milk prices continue depressed through spring, according to USDA projections at last weeks Agricultural Outlook Foru

Get ready for another wild price ride in 2015. That was one of the key messages from USDAs annual Agricultural Outlook Forum last week in Arlington, Virginia, as the agency released projections for lower planted acres for corn, soybeans and wheat, and bigger livestock her

And despite weakening farmland in most areas, farmers financial prospects bear no relation to the collapse experienced three decades ago.

Already one of the biggest spenders in domestic infrastructure improvement, the U.S. rail industry doesnt seem interested in seeking federal help to improve its system.

Some importers apparently are using U.S. soybeans as a way to get access to credit that they can use to then make loans.

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USDAs Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is giving the public an extra 30 days to submit alternative or partial proposals for a new industry-funded promotion, research and information order for organic products  otherwise known as an organic check-off program.

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While the timing for TPA remains up in the air, the House is scheduled to vote next on bills to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) requirements for meat (HR 2393) and to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.