Delegates overwhelmingly affirmed their support for MFP payments if the administration’s plans to dramatically increase trade don't go as planned and made several other changes to their policy book.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is promising farmers that his department will play a key role in enforcing China's pledges to purchase $80 billion in U.S. agricultural commodities over the next two years. 

President Donald Trump will keynote the American Farm Bureau’s annual convention Sunday in Austin, Texas, on the heels of the signing of a partial trade agreement with China, Agri-Pulse has learned.

President Donald Trump’s latest claim that he might push back a trade pact with China until after the 2020 elections has unleashed a new wave of uncertainty for America’s farmers who had been counting on promises that a resolution to the trade war was imminent.

Americans will spend almost exactly what they did last year on their Thanksgiving Day meal, according to the annual survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The Ag Innovation Challenge sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Farm Credit Administration will now receive applications through mid-October.

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responded to calls from our community to reconsider its role in regulating gene editing technology in animal agriculture. Despite the Trump administration’s recent directive to streamline costly and overly burdensome regulations that inhibit innovation and investment, FDA maintains it is unwilling to cede any regulatory control of this important technology.

Terri Moore, a familiar face in agricultural communications with stops at the White House, USDA, the Senate, and the private sector is set to join the American Farm Bureau Federation as the group’s vice president of communications.