Ag Policy Blog

Under a hotter climate scenario, the total cost of crop insurance to cover the soybean crop could double while the costs of the insurance program for protecting the corn crop could go up 21%, USDA's Economic Research Service stated in a study released Monday.

Forty-eight agriculture trade organizations will receive $100 million in USDA funds in response to ongoing trade war with China.

The White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the final waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule.

The White House Office of Management and Budget completed its review of the latest market facilitation program proposal.

The National Association of State Agriculture Directors (NASDA) has written the Food and Drug Administration "to expeditiously create a clear regulatory framework for hemp products."

The Food and Drug Administration lifted an import alert that allowed Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies to import eggs into Indiana from its facility. The eggs arrived at an Indiana fish farm in late May and it will take about 18 months for the salmon to reach market...

Agricultural production globally is expected to increase 15% over the coming decade, due mainly to yield improvement and higher production intensity on current cropland, pushed heavily by new technologies.

Courts can no longer automatically defer to federal agency interpretation of federal rules, but instead will be required to determine whether regulations are clear in the first place, the United States Supreme Court ruled last week. For farmers battling federal agencies, the...

The union representing employees from the Economic Research Service cited that roughly two-thirds of more than 200 employees being reassigned from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, Mo., won't go. That is exactly what USDA leaders want and what the Trump administration...

Leadership at CropLife America joined the ranks of U.S. businesses concerned about possible new tariffs on imported products from China. For more than a week, companies have been testifying before the U.S. Trade Representative's panel on the 25% proposed tariffs against as...

New York City officials will push ahead with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to reduce beef consumption in the city despite criticism from Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and the Nebraska Farm Bureau

A pair of farmers testified Wednesday before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy. The two farmers, one from Missouri and one from Virginia, largely testified about how they have been affected by...

U.S. trading partners at the World Trade Organization have some questions about how USDA intends to implement disaster aid and the next round of Market Facilitation Program payments.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told employees of the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture today that if they want to stay with their agencies, they must make a decision shortly about whether to take the assignment in the Kansas...

In the effort to pile on numbers supporting the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, 950 agricultural groups and businesses sent a letter to leadership and members of Congress on Tuesday calling on lawmakers to quickly consider and ratify the agreement.

USDA issued a statement on aid from Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue along with some questions-and-answers where the department sought to spell out some clarity.

President Donald Trump took a victory lap on Twitter early Saturday after announcing late Friday that the U.S. had reached a deal with Mexico and would not impose tariffs starting Monday.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wrote the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking the department to speed up cover-crop guidelines from the 2018 farm bill and allow haying and grazing on prevent-planted acres earlier than normal.

The prevented-planting language in the new disaster legislation approved by Congress creates more confusion on prevent-planting coverage at a time when spring planting season could be looking at record-breaking unplanted acreage.

Republican lawmakers indicated Tuesday they would be willing to work on legislation to block the president from implementing the next round of tariffs, but President Donal Trump dismissed that possibility at a press conference Tuesday in England.