Articles by Daniel Enoch

President Trump has renominated three individuals to key positions at USDA.

Pat Roberts, a champion for agriculture who has represented Kansas in Congress for decades, last week announced he will retire at the end of his current term rather than run for reelection in 2020.

President Trump nominated Heath Tarbert to be a commissioner and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. If confirmed, he would succeed Chris Giancarlo as chairman of the U.S. derivatives regulators.

There were few major surprises in the last WASDE report of 2018, released Tuesday, with estimates of corn production and soybean production unchanged from November.

Funeral services are planned for Saturday for Bob Bergland, a northern Minnesota farmer who served as President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of agriculture from 1977 to 1981.

A key advisor to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will be heading back to his home state of Missouri at the end of the week.

USDA is allowing participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 14 California counties affected by recent wildfires to buy hot foods with their SNAP benefits through Dec. 17.

Deere and Co. reported an increase in fourth-quarter earnings but sees sales slowing in FY 2019.

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith won Tuesday's runoff election for U.S. Senate from Mississippi, defeating Democrat Mike Espy by 54 to 46 percent of the votes tallied last night.