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President Biden is expected to sign his executive order today addressing concentration in agribusiness, transportation and other sectors. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to promote the White House initiative.

A turbulent couple of months for meatpackers and their employees has placed a fresh focus on the industry’s capacity to process the chicken, pork and beef on American dinner plates.

Switching highly specialized supply chains to an oversubscribed market is raising new challenges as well as questions about how the nation feeds the hungry during crises.

A proposal to tax sugary beverage distributors returns to the Legislature * Tax on sugary beverages is back * Trump gives meatpacking marching orders

Cattle producers, feeders, and packers are unlikely to feel the impacts in the short term of Walmart’s much-publicized entrance into the beef business, a new report from CoBank says.

With solar and wind power systems getting cheaper and coal prices steadily rising, America's rural areas are, often with the help of grants, loans, and tax breaks, getting in step with the global pursuit of renewable power.

Agricultural giant CHS Inc. is the largest cooperative in the nation and had more than twice the revenue of any other co-op in 2018, the National Cooperative Bank reports.

One of the first official duties of the 2018 National FFA Officer Team is their trip to Washington, D.C.