Steve Davies

A federal court has rejected a First Amendment challenge to the operation of 15 state beef checkoff boards, ruling that promotions funded with checkoff money are government speech, not private speech.

More than 60 agricultural groups are asking states to increase weight limits for trucks in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Five federal employees, including a Food Safety and Inspection Service inspector, have sued the federal government for hazard pay for working during the coronavirus crisis.

Now that President Donald Trump has signed the historic $2 trillion economic relief package into law, work now turns to getting the money out as quickly as possible. “This doesn’t do anybody any good if it takes a long time,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday.

The Trump administration is paving the way toward potentially restarting the economy in some areas of the country.

The Farm Service Agency is “relaxing” its loan-making process as the nation works to cope with travel and interpersonal restrictions brought about by the coronavirus outbreak. 

The $2 trillion Phase 3 stimulus package that passed the Senate late Wednesday night has a lot for ag, but not everyone thinks the sector is getting what will be needed for 2020. Starting with USDA.

A leading architect of the ag programs in the $2 trillion economic stimulus package says he expects USDA could use the funding it gets through the bill to provide several forms of relief to producers beyond a new Market Facilitation Program.

Bovine plasma donors genetically engineered to produce human antibodies are in the front lines of the struggle against coronavirus.