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The dairy panel at USDA’s annual Outlook Forum focused almost entirely on the bullish market prospect for dairy farmers and vigorous exports of U.S. dairy products. Yet one speaker offered a long-term caveat about potential “unintended consequences” arising from the milk margin protection program a

National Beef Packing Co. says it is going ahead with plans to close its Brawley, Calif., processing plant despite an offer by local cattle-feeding operations of $24 million in cattle price discounts for 2014 and 2015.

Farmers in California who are patiently waiting for rain and congressional drought assistance have their eyes focused on the Senate where legislation has been slow to move.

Even as the number of farms in the U.S. held relatively steady for the past decade, the number of dairy farms has been in a steady decline that even accelerated last year, according to an annual tabulation released by USDA.

After twenty years of study, it happened last week: EPA released its proposed Agricultural Worker Protection Standards, which, if approved, will regulate the application of pesticides on much of this countrysfarmland.

The first installment of the 2012 Census of Agriculture shows 6.2 more women principal farm and ranch operators than five years earlier and a 2 percent gain in farmers under 35. It also adds to the arsenal of those, like Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who are pushing programs to boost younge

Several Northwestern states are expected to have near normal of above normal water supplies, while far less than normal streamflow is expected in some southern portions of the nation, according to report released April 14 by the Agriculture Department.

The USDA intends to finalize a proposed rule by the end of the year that seeks to create a new speedier inspection system at poultry slaughter plants, according to Brian Ronholm, USDA acting undersecretary for food safety.

a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows that global emissions grew more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades and if nothing is done to address this threat around the globe, temperatures will continue to rise.

Virginia has filed a brief in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its legal battle with the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) to set pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay