Sara Wyant

California walnut growers and handlers don’t want you to stop baking banana walnut bread or other traditional favorites anytime soon. But they do want you to start looking for their products in some innovative new places like creamers, parfaits, sauces, plant-based tacos and the produce aisle

Many of the threats that have faced the global produce industry over the last two years, including geopolitical risks, tariffs, inflation, labor and artificial intelligence, remain key challenges. However, the leader of the International Fresh Produce Association says IFPA is ramping up advocacy efforts and making progress on several fronts in the “Fight for Fresh.”

President Donald Trump will meet this afternoon with House and Senate leaders about avoiding a government shutdown.

One day after the Agriculture Department lowered its forecast for net cash farm income this year, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins took to the airwaves to predict that the farm economy was headed toward brighter days. 

California legislators competed in the Great Tomato Challenge, sponsored by Agri-Pulse, to see who could grow the biggest and best looking tomato plant over an eight-week time period and the winners' prizes were donated to food banks of their choice. 

John Harris, a farmer, cattle rancher, horse breeder, philanthropist and visionary businessman, passed away this week. 

The concept builds on Western Growers’ Agtech Initiative from more than a decade ago, which was based on the view that technology startups need grower input about field-level challenges.

Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican and doctor by training, has long advocated the "food is medicine" concept, the idea that diet plays a role in preventing and curing disease. Now he has emerged as one of the leading congressional champions of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement launched by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Fresh from being confirmed as the 33^rd Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins headed into her new office, surrounded by family and new staff and acknowledging a long list of challenges and opportunities ahead. 

Delegates attending the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual resolutions session updated several policies and went into executive session to modify their organization’s bylaws, in what many assumed was an effort to clarify membership guidelines and address potential outcomes of an ongoing legal dispute with Illinois Farm Bureau.