The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency is seeing growth in programs to insure a larger volume and variety of organic and specialty crops, reflecting increased consumer purchases of … Read More

As Illinois continues to face an agricultural education teacher shortage, one group is tackling the issue through a grant program for beginning ag teachers. Destiny Swalve, ag teacher at Armstrong … Read More

The latest trade numbers show strong U.S. agricultural exports despite transportation challenges. Trade data shows U.S. exports are up this year with a significant increase in exports to China. American … Read More

Turkey remained a staple of Thanksgiving and many holidays during the pandemic, even if families couldn’t all gather as they had in previous years. And because dinner tables were tighter … Read More

For more than a year, misinformation that ivermectin is effective at treating or preventing the coronavirus has run rampant across social media, podcasts and talk radio. Even as the Food … Read More

Grocery shopping has gotten more expensive. In August, grocery store prices crept up another 0.4%, leaving them 3% above their level a year earlier and 7.6% higher than they were … Read More

For months farmers have been concerned about proposed tax changes, including the elimination of stepped-up basis. New research from USDA’s Economic Research Service confirms those concerns are warranted as nearly … Read More

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is expected to announce another step toward addressing consolidation in the meat and poultry sector, an issue that’s become a bipartisan priority since the start of … Read More

U.S. fuel ethanol production was down more than 1 percent the week ending Sept. 24, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Sept. 29. Stocks of … Read More

The brewing Cold War between the EU and U.S. over the future of farming risks undermining not only tens of billions of euros’ worth of agricultural trade annually, but also … Read More