Articles by Spencer Chase

Agriculture and construction equipment giant John Deere today announced layoffs at two Iowa manufacturing plants. The news comes days after the company reported profit for its fiscal third quarter fell from the year-earlier period.

The Environmental Protection Agency has been taken to the woodshed by its Office of Inspector General, which said the agency has failed to provide legally required reports to Congress.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack awarded almost $18 million in funding for projects impacting beginning farmers and ranchers on the heels of a roundtable discussion in his home state with producers who are just getting started.

More affordable cropland isnPt just something that could improve producer margins; itPs something that is an absolute necessity, according to a new report.

USDA is in the process of finalizing a rule to amend animal welfare standards in organic agriculture, and they received a fresh to-do list last week from a pair of Capitol Hill letters.

The fact that stakeholders are upset about the conditions of the inland waterways system is nothing new. The fact that some of those same people have some reasons to be optimistic is a more recent development.

An unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat has been found growing in a U.S. field, but it has not been detected anywhere in the nation`s wheat supply.

General Mills is expanding its recall of raw flour to include flour produced on more dates after new illnesses possibly linked to the product were reported. This is the third time that the recall, first announced in May, has been expanded.

Hot, hot, hot! Last week, a high pressure system that trapped hot air for an extended period of time created a heat dome that put 110 million Americans under heat advisories on Saturday alone. Heat indexes surged well into triple digits, topping 110 in some areas&

Just in case.That@s the philosophy many local USDA Farm Service Agency offices are taking with wheat producers and paperwork for Loan Deficiency Payments. South Dakota State FSA Executive Director Craig Schaunaman told Agri-Pulse that reports of paperwork being distributed to produ