Chris Clayton

Ohio farmer David Brandt died Sunday following a car accident in Illinois. Brandt leaves a long legacy of work in regenerative agriculture. He was honored earlier this year by the group No-till on...

A new study released Wednesday cited that farmers can increase both profits and crop yields up to 25% by adopting regenerative-agricultural practices such as no-till and cover crops. But...

Dubbed NBAF, the new state-of-the art animal-disease laboratory in Manhattan, Kansas, will replace the 68-year-old Animal Defense Center. The new facility will have among the world's highest scientific equipment and containment...

EPA in late December announced tighter rules on smog emissions from trucks that are as much as 80% higher than current rules. With narrow majorities, both the House and Senate voted to overturn the rules, but President Joe...

A cow originally from a Tennessee herd was tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy after it was deemed unfit for slaughter at a South Carolina processing plant. The cow is the seventh BSE case in the U.S. over the past 20...

For 2022 disaster losses affecting producers affected by "wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, winter storms and other eligible disasters occurring in calendar year 2022," USDA still has not announced an application timeline for ERP or...

The December corn futures contract fell to $4.94 a bushel before rallying to $4.99, marking the first time the December contract has dipped below the $5 mark since the contract briefly fell below $5 in 2021. The November soybean...

U.S. District Judge Robert L. Jones out of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas granted the motion for Rabo AgriFinance to seek documents from 11 companies and people connected to a pair of Texas...

Talks continue over another extension of the grain deal that has allowed Ukraine to export more than 30 million metric tons of grain and oilseeds since July of last year. The U.N. has called its extension "vital for global food...

Using $10.7 billion in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, USDA on Tuesday will lay out two new loan and grant programs for rural electric cooperatives and other rural power providers. The projects will look to help rural areas...

Rabo Agrifinance is accusing the business surrounding a Kentucky cattle producer who died in April and his two Texas feedyards of engaging in a fraud that drained its bank accounts and cleared out tens of thousands of cattle...

Speaking at a water conference, Beth Ford, CEO of Land O'Lakes, warned against waiting for a crisis to try to catch up on agricultural research or labor needs in the U.S. She cited the risks that could occur if U.S. carryover...

Mato Grosso, Brazil, Gov. Mauro Mendes Ferreira spoke Monday at the Water for Food conference in Lincoln hosted by the University of Nebraska. Officials in Nebraska had hosted Mendes and other Brazilian officials last year to...

U.S senators asked bankers about systemic risks within the banking industry and the broader implications for farmers and rural America in a hearing Thursday on agricultural credit and crop insurance held by the Senate Agriculture...

Grain prices rallied on Wednesday even though the Federal Reserve rate hike brought down stocks and oil prices continued to fall. As DTN has reported, farmers are already borrowing less, while high input prices such as fuel and...

The Iowa House on Tuesday passed a funding bill that shifts $500,000 from the Iowa Nutrient Research Center at Iowa State University and sends the funds to a conservation program in the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land...

Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas spent April 28 with Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall hearing from agribusiness leaders in Kansas City, Missouri, and meeting with Kansas farmers and ranchers in Manhattan, Kansas. As they hear about the...

FDA authorized Washington State University with the first regulatory approval for a group of five gene-edited hogs to be approved for human consumption. The university highlighted that the pork from the hogs was used to make...

In a subcommittee hearing Wednesday, lawmakers heard from leaders from 10 commodity organizations, most of whom suggested the next farm bill needs to raise reference prices for the Agricultural Risk Coverage and Price Loss...

House Republicans yielded to demands of Midwestern lawmakers to protect the $1 per-gallon Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel Tax Credit, as well as the Second-Generation Biofuels Tax Credit in the debt limit bill.

The White House on Tuesday officially declared President Joe Biden would veto the House debt limit bill if it reaches his desk. The House bill rolls back tax credits for a long list of renewable energy programs from the Inflation...

At least four members of the California congressional delegation wrote a letter Monday citing the damages farmers and ranchers have faced from flooding that hit the state. That funding request ties into the farm bill debate...

This past week, DTN toured the lower Snake River locks and dams -- Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Monumental -- as well as some grain elevators that rely on the dams for navigation. Advocates on both sides...

Atlas Agro, based in Switzerland, was started in 2021 by former executives in the fertilizer industry. The company has announced plans to build its first fertilizer plant in Richland, Washington. Atlas Agro states the company plans...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Wednesday introduced the Limit, Save and Grow Act, with a long list of GOP demands to raise the national debt limit by $1.5 trillion. Among the provisions, the bill would repeal several...

In a letter to 18 of the country's largest meat and poultry companies, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack advised the packing industry to take more actions to ensure their supply chains are not using illegal child labor.

The Biden administration on Wednesday made its most aggressive move toward pushing the country to electric vehicles with EPA proposals for tighter vehicle emission standards for both light- and medium-duty vehicles, as well as...

A grant awarded in Iowa as part of a series of Conservation Innovation Grants will study how relay intercropping could work in the Midwest and allow producers to get three cash crops over two years. A change in crop insurance...

Camelina, a tiny oilseed used for renewable diesel that has a low carbon score, has growth potential in the Prairie.

Congress is on break this week, but crop insurance and disaster aid for farmers was the focus Tuesday of a panel discussion by economists hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in...

State lawmakers in Texas are paying closer attention to the right to farm following a farmer's battles against cities that see farming as a nuisance to their growth and development plans.

The Biden administration announced $1 billion in REAP funding on Friday with USDA opening a series of quarterly application windows over the next two years for grants as well as a continuous application window for guaranteed loans.

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management released a sweeping plan to change how the agency oversees 245 million of acres of federal land that would allow 10-year conservation leases, similar to grazing...

In a 407-26 vote, members of the U.S. House of Representatives added an amendment to an energy bill that would prevent Chinese nationals or affiliates with the Chinese Communist Party from buying any interest in U.S. farmland or...

Senators voted Wednesday to overturn the waters of the U.S. rule in the EPA under the Congressional Review Act, following a House vote earlier this month. President Joe Biden is expected to veto the measure, but waters of the...

Cargill had an agreement this year to export 2.2 million metric tons of grain out of Russia, or about 4% of the country's total grain exports, but will stop exporting grain out of the country starting in July. The move comes after...

Lawmakers may hear complaints from farmers about 2022 disaster payments because of less money than prior years. Members of the House Agriculture Committee also wanted suggestions from Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack about how to...

Attorneys general from 27 states and territories cited that right-to-repair is a growing issue around the country "that impacts every consumer, household and farm in a time of increasing inflation." They pointed to the needs of...

President Joe Biden signed a proclamation for the 50th National Ag Day. At a policy conference Monday, March 20, in Washington, the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees also talked extensively...

For the second time in the past nine years, the lesser prairie chicken will officially be added to the Endangered Species list Monday.

A bill passed the Iowa House on March 22 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...

While there is a desire in Congress to support cutting-edge research for agriculture, the support actually falls flat when compared to agricultural investments taking off in other countries. Groups committed to boosting ag...

While USDA has started to set up some pilot urban farming programs in cities around the country, a visit to a couple of farmers' markets in Richmond, Virginia, found a mix of full-time urban farmers who wouldn't know where to...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday, which led to several conversations between Vilsack and senators about how to support both large-production farmers as well as...

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...

A federal magistrate in North Dakota on Wednesday rejected a request by a farmer under a federal indictment who wanted a temporary restraining order against USDA that would allow him to continue buying crop insurance this year.

With Wednesday, March 15, the deadline for farmers to sign up for crop insurance, attorneys for a North Dakota farmer under a federal indictment asked a U.S. magistrate judge for a temporary restraining order that would allow...

While defending the crop insurance program is a priority, leaders for key commodity groups indicated they want to improve the Title I safety net for crops, but they recognize the struggle to do that.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack signed final contracts at the Commodity Classic trade show to launch a pair of climate-smart commodity projects. He highlighted that the 141 pilot projects are expected to reach more than 60,000...

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...

Under an agreement reached with AFBF, CNH Industrial will ensure farmers, as well as any staff or independent technician or repair shop, will have electronic access "on fair and reasonable terms" to Case IH and New Holland...

The Biden administration expects agriculture can bring down climate emissions with new financial incentives. Meanwhile, Republican senators last week pointed out that greenhouse-gas emissions are not the only natural resources...

At least one member of the Senate Agriculture Committee said tying conservation to crop insurance "should be off the table" in the next farm bill. Another senator questioned why CRP rental rates in some of his counties are so...

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed a resolution calling for the repeal of the WOTUS rule on a 30-22 vote under the Congressional Review Act. The resolution will now go to the House floor. The vote came...

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Wednesday, Feb. 22, got the greenlight to shoot as many as 150 "unauthorized" cattle from a helicopter in Gila National Forest in southwest New Mexico.

All told, USDA forecasts total U.S. red meat and poultry production will decline slightly from a record 107.5 billion pounds in 2022 to 106.9 billion pounds of red meat and poultry production in 2023. If realized, it will be the first...

The current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza is now the deadliest animal disease in history, topping the 2015 bird flu outbreak. One of the big drivers this time around is that the...