Articles by Bill Tomson

USDA`s Farm Service Agency announced today that it is offering some much-needed relief to financially stressed farmers by making an additional $185 million worth of direct and guaranteed loans available in the short remainder of this fiscal year.

Farming is expected to be even less profitable this year than it was in 2015, despite a major increase in government payments, according to a new report released Tuesday by USDA°s Economic Research Service.

It was never a sure thing that the Margin Protection Program, or MPP, was going to be an effective safety net and insurance program for the nationðs dairy farmers.

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- USDA doesnPt have the manpower or funds yet to complete the federal rule for the GMO disclosure law, but the department is doing what it can as quickly as it can, according to government officials.

USDA plans to spend an estimated $20 million to take about 11 million pounds of cheese off the market and reduce the surplus that has helped keep prices low.

Recruiting military veterans and youth into farming should be a major goal of the next farm bill, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said today at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event to highlight its Hiring our Heroes program.

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USDA was ordered to look into the possibility of creating a catfish insurance program and the result is disappointing to many of the nation@s catfish farmers