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The U.S. hog and pig inventory totaled 66.1 million head as of Dec. 1, up 2 percent from a year earlier and up 1 percent from Sept. 1, USDA said today in a quarterly report.

The cost of a livestock disaster program has soared to more than $4 billion this year ? far beyond what Congress expected ? even as auditors are finding that earlier payments under the program were rife with errors. The payments are being made under USDA?s Livestock Forage Program, which was create

DuPont and Monsanto Co. have agreed to settle and dismiss their respective patent infringement lawsuits pending in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, possibly ending a long and bitter legal battle between the world?s two largest seed companies over patents related to seed technology.

Agriculture Department economists have lowered their estimate for food inflation this year despite big increases in the price of beef, pork and eggs. USDA?s Economic Research Service estimates that food prices will wind up 2.25 percent to 3.25 percent higher this year than in 2013, closer to the l

Abundant global sugar stocks continue to weigh on world market prices, according to a report from Rabobank, a major bank to the food, beverage and agribusiness industries in North America.

Starbucks says it will to shift to cage-free eggs and pork raised without the use of sow gestation crates as the coffee chain upgrades requirements for its suppliers. The company says it will eliminate practices such as tail-docking in dairy production and the use of artificial growth hormones and

A report shows railroads are demonstrating improvement in handling grain cargo, easing concerns that the struggles experienced with the 2013 grain harvest may carry over to this year?s crop.

The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, says that he intends to consider an immigration bill to address the need for farmworkers in agriculture. His House counterpart, Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has told Grassley that he expects to act on the issue fairly

For the last 13 months, most of the news coming out of China regarding the U.S. grain trade has been one of frustration and uncertainty, putting a damper on commodity prices that have already tumbled from historic highs.

While global fertilizer supplies appear set to outweigh demand, the forecast for pricing for the first quarter of 2015 ?looks rather cloudy,? according to a new report on the global fertilizer industry by Rabobank?s Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory group.