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Ray Starling challenged the crowd at USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum dinner on Thursday to contemplate what sweeping cultural trends like fewer men in the workplace might mean for American farming. 

President Donald Trump will continue a decades-long tradition of pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House this week. The birds’ grower, Travis Pittman from North Carolina, presented his birds in Washington on Monday. 

The United States' hog and pig inventory totaled 74.5 million head as of Sept. 1, down 1% from the previous year, according to a report published last week by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.

In this opinion piece, Britt Groosman, vice president of agriculture, water, and food for the Environmental Defense Fund, says we owe it to farmers, ranchers, and families to get food production ready for a world that’s getting hotter.

In this opinion piece, hog producers Josh Coombs and Reggie Strickland argue consumers and farmers would benefit from a farm bill provision that would stop California from enforcing Prop 12 requirements on out-of-state pork production.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in three additional dairy herds in Michigan, the state’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced Friday.