China’s dwindling pace of meat imports, thanks to its tough measures against coronavirus contamination, will provide further support for prices already buoyed by a severe shortage of pork, analysts said. … Read More

Amid the market challenges farmers and ranchers are facing because of the coronavirus outbreak, the new USMCA trade deal offers the U.S. agricultural industry a ray of optimism. (Post Register)

The pandemic is speeding the shift from human meat cutters to robotic butchers, but machines can’t yet match people’s ability. (Wall Street Journal)

The Appropriations Committee will meet at 10 a.m. to consider a trio of fiscal 2021 measures, including the Agriculture-FDA bill. (Politico)  

Last month USDA announced alternative housing resources for season ag laborers and other ag workforce. Learn more on our USDA page.

Bayer AG is scrapping a $1.25 billion proposal for resolving future lawsuits over whether its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, highlighting the difficulty of settling litigation over a product still on … Read More

The local Prairie Farms Dairy operation will end production and lay off 62 employees in the coming weeks as it moves to a distribution-only facility, the organization said in filings … Read More

Illinois’ young corn crop was rated Sunday as 13 percent excellent, 48 percent good, 31 percent fair and 8 percent poor or very poor, according to the U.S. Department of … Read More

At least 17,000 meat and poultry processing facility workers in the U.S. have been infected with COVID-19, the vast majority being racial and ethnic minorities, the Centers for Disease Control … Read More

U.S. meat production, upended earlier this year by the coronavirus pandemic, which shuttered meatpacking plants around the country, has rebounded to near-normal levels, Agriculture Department figures show, but workers still … Read More