Steve Davies

Consumer complaints to the Food Safety and Inspection Service rose about 40% in fiscal 2025, which ended Sept. 30, according to a brief report issued by the agency.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will visit the port of Douglas, Arizona, next week as USDA considers whether to reopen any southern ports to cattle imports from Mexico, she said Friday at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new sterile fly facility in Texas.

Corteva Inc. has named the executive leadership team that will lead “New Corteva,” the placeholder name for the new crop protection company resulting from the company’s planned separation in the fourth quarter of this year. The company also announced the new leadership team for the seed business, now known by the placeholder name SpinCo.

Multiple grant recipients plan to appeal USDA's termination last month of a $300 million program designed to help small-scale farmers gain access to land and marketing tools.

About 70% of farmers say in a survey conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation that they cannot afford all the fertilizer they need this growing season.

Bankers in the Federal Reserve’s 11th district, which includes Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico, report “slightly worsening conditions” as drought persists and commodity prices remain low.

Cattlemen’s groups are upset about a federal judge’s rejection of a settlement between Oklahoma and poultry companies in a long-running lawsuit over phosphorus pollution in the Illinois River Watershed.

Gas prices increased 21.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Food prices were relatively stable, with grocery prices down 0.2% and food away from home up 0.2%.

Some of the conservation projects under a $3.1 billion program that has been rebranded from a focus on climate-smart agriculture to expanding markets for farmers are slowly moving toward approval by USDA.

A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a complaint against pesticide and seed manufacturers claiming they illegally worked together to stymie e-commerce sales of their products.