Ag Policy Blog

While the U.S. Trade Representative's Office is holding talks with Indo-Pacific countries, the country's top trade negotiator told Senators on Thursday that the U.S. isn't cutting any deals for other countries to lower tariffs to U.S. products. Senators from both parties...

A bill passed the Iowa House on Wednesday that would require carbon pipeline projects to get at least 90% of their easement miles through voluntary agreements with landowners before seeking eminent domain authority from state regulators. A poll in Iowa shows more than...

Food security is a major component of a new United Nations climate report released Monday. The report includes 33 references to food security and or food production as a risk going forward. Beyond actual temperature changes and extreme weather, the scientists also note...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday committed to helping increase testing of soil and livestock products around area of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment beyond some soil testing that has already begun around the site. But USDA's disaster programs right now...

Members of the House Agriculture Committee held a listening session on policy issues and the next farm bill on Wednesday in Waco, Texas. Farmers, food-aid advocates and university officials were among those who spoke about some of the issues they would like to see Congress...

A collection of 400 state and national agricultural groups, including some wildlife and conservation organizations, on Tuesday wrote a letter backing the need to provide the House and Senate agriculture committees "with sufficient budgetary resources to write a new, bipartisan...

Robert Bonnie, USDA's undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation, told DTN at the Commodity Classic farm show that USDA had teams starting to conduct soil tests for farmers around East Palestine, Ohio, as part of their disaster response.

The combination of wealth from high-tech firms and creative thinking on the West Coast has led San Francisco and Silicon Valley to be a center for companies focused on new ideas in food such as plant-based and cell-based production and addressing problems such as food waste...

The USDA budget for farmers in President Joe Biden's fiscal year 2024 budget largely remains pat, waiting on the next farm bill. But the White House proposed to increase spending on USDA conservation programs by $208 million and add $400 million to spending on rural broadband...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday that USDA was releasing a proposed rule with new regulatory requirements to better align the voluntary "Product of USA" label claim with consumer understanding of what the claim means.

Most western states have been in some form of drought now for more than two decades, but only in the past two years has the drought received more attention, largely due to the problems with infrastructure, reservoirs and Colorado River struggles. At the moment, heavy rains...

USDA has $250 million to help rice farmers, but enrollment for the payment program will start later this spring. The department released some details of the Rice Production Program so farmers can be prepared for the signup, "which will include a pre-filled application in an effort...