Ag Policy Blog

USDA detailed the enrollment period for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) on Friday. You have until May 10 to get your application into for CSP into your local Natural Resources and Conservation Service office.

The American Trucking Associations has launched a new campaign with television and digital ads over the next two months to highlight the need for more infrastructure investment in roads and bridges nationally.

The U.S. has an updated tri-lateral trade deal with Canada and Mexico that needs approval by the legislative bodies in all three countries, but that is getting more complicated all the time.

The Senate late Monday failed to invoke cloture on a Republican substitute to the House-passed emergency disaster bill and the underlying bill that passed the House earlier this year.

As I mentioned in Saturday's item, I got a little tied up with the candidate press gaggles at the Heartland Forum in Storm Lake, especially those of Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. Because of that, I didn't give a fair shake to three other candidates who were there...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan all took questions at the Heartland Forum in consecutive order on stage. These candidates, like at least 11 others...

Several farm groups focusing on issues related to small family farms in crisis held a rally here Saturday leading up to a rural issues forum later in the afternoon with a handful of Democratic presidential candidates.

In the 2008 farm bill, Congress created a disaster indemnity program for farmers called the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE). That program went away in the 2014 farm bill, but now Congress is having to fight again to get ad-hoc disaster passed. That was exactly...

The law did preempt state labeling laws, as the food industry wanted, but there are so many problems and inconstancies with the law and the rule promulgated by the Agriculture Department's Agricultural Marketing Service that when the standard goes into force in January, there...

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday he expects the emergency disaster bill that Senate Republicans released to provide flooded areas of the Midwest the same type of aid that is provided to California for forest fires and the Southeast for tornado and hurricane...

National Farmers Union on Monday, leading a coalition of other farm and rural groups, called on Congress to fully fund the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) in fiscal year 2020.

As flooding was hitting Missouri River towns, the president of the Missouri Farm Bureau on Wednesday said flooding is becoming more common and more work is needed to deal with levee protection on the river.

For the second time in as many days, USDA issued news releases this week stressing preventive measures to avoid African swine fever from landing in the U.S. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Wednesday highlighted Greg Ibach, under secretary for Marketing and...

Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Tuesday announced that the list of cities to which the Trump administration wants to relocate most of the employees in the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food Agriculture has been narrowed from 136 to 67.

Back on that issue of beef and greenhouse gas emissions. USDA's Agricultural Research Service on Monday released "a fuller picture" on the environmental footprint of beef.

The House and Senate Agriculture committees have gone roughly a decade without holding hearings on climate change and rural America. The void is now being filled by people who don't know anything about food production or renewable energy in rural America. It's time for lawmakers...

USDA announced Wednesday more are being taken as officials work to keep African Swine Fever from entering the U.S. African Swine Fever is a highly contagious disease for hogs that has been sweeping through China in recent months. ASF could cause catastrophic financial damage...

The Agriculture Department is hiring staff throughout the country in order to implement the 2018 farm bill on a set schedule, Agriculture Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Bill Northey said here Sunday at the National Farmers Union convention.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue reviewed the accomplishments since his last visit at Commodity Classic, while continuing the line that farmers would need to be patient to get clarification on new Farm Bill rules.

The American Soybean Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Corn Growers Association and National Sorghum Producers each endorsed the USMCA, citing that Mexico and Canada account for 25% of all U.S. agricultural exports "and USMCA preserves and builds...