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The Biden-Harris Administration plans to increase access to nature for disadvantaged communities through a major infusion of money to state and territory forestry agencies.

The Department of Agriculture announced Monday it will expand its Farm to School program with an additional $70 million of funding.

Many farmers in the southern Plains and the West worry they can't produce their crops this year because of an abnormally dry winter and little prospect for moisture in coming weeks.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Friday an immediate halt to the state’s enhanced inspections of Mexican trucks that had been delaying U.S. imports of fruits and vegetables as well as U.S. exports of poultry to Mexican buyers for more than a week.

Shipments of U.S. poultry are getting caught up in delays at Mexico’s border after Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered increased inspections of north-bound trucks, spurring protests by Mexican truckers who blocked southbound traffic.

Foreign holdings of U.S. land increased by 2.4 million acres in 2020, with 40% of the growth occurring in just three states, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado, according to a new Agriculture Department report. But these holdings are still a relatively small share of U.S. farmland.

New congressional maps that states have finalized based on the 2020 census will leave at least six members of the House Agriculture Committee facing tough re-election races this fall.

Many of the top agricultural counties in the United States are consistently losing population, except in those with processing facilities, according to an Agri-Pulse analysis of 2020 census data. 

High commodity prices are fueling farmers' optimism as planters get rolling this spring, but in some areas the lack of rain this spring is making producers nervous as they plant into the dusty ground.

The citrus industry in Texas is expected to lose hundreds of millions of dollars due to last week’s winter storm, but other sectors say it may take weeks before economic impacts are fully known.