Now that farmers and the companies and consultants who support them have embraced the need for field-level data collection and have adopted myriad methods for gathering it, ag leaders say the industry has reached the critical juncture of figuring out what to do with all that information.

Kailee Tkacz Buller is leaving USDA, Gary Woodward has taken a job off Capitol Hill, and a familar PR farm hand calls it a career.

A pair of lobbyists advocating for farm and food workers have received waivers that will allow them to serve on the Biden-Harris transition team.

The U.S. and the U.K. still have a lot of negotiating ahead of them, but the British will likely agree to a free trade agreement that allows for increased trade in beef, pork and poultry, says Gregg Doud, the U.S. Trade Representative’s top agriculture negotiator.

California Giant has hired Alan Ediger as the new vice president of sales and Jay Brown as the new CFO and Bobalu Berries has added Jonathan Sparks in the sales department.

Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Steve Censky has announced he is returning to the American Soybean Association, and John Lagemann announces retirement from Deere & Co.

USDA Deputy Secretary Steve Censky will leave the agency and return to the helm of the American Soybean Association this fall, a position in which he previously served for 21 years.

Ryan Findlay is no longer the CEO of the American Soybean Association, the organization confirmed to Agri-Pulse Saturday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday shut down an entire wing of its Washington headquarters after an employee tested positive for coronavirus, according to documents and officials.