Ag Policy Blog

President Donald Trump will speak Monday at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 100th annual meeting in New Orleans.

Leading into President Donald Trump's speech Tuesday night, Sen. Charles Grassley made the argument that most Democrats had supported similar border-wall funding under former President George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

House Democrats on Friday elected Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, a position Peterson held from 2007 to 2011 when his party last was in the majority in the House.

Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., the incoming chairman House Rules Committee, released a set of new rules for the House that included a specific provision directing the House Office of General Counsel to look at the changes to SNAP, as well as looking at legal intervention into...

Direct payments for farmers who have not certified production as part of the Market Facilitation Program (MFP), as well as farm loans and disaster assistance programs, were put on hold beginning this week, and will not start up again until the government reopens.

USDA released details Friday for how it will or will not work next week after Christmas.

USDA's proposal to move the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) outside of the Washington, DC, metro area remains a plan that is generating more and more opposition.

On a weekly call with Sen. Charles Grassley, a reporter from Politico starting asking the senator about trade-aid payments to farmers. In her follow-up question, she highlighted that there were a lot of negative comments on social media about farmers and the second round of...

At the White House Congressional Ball on Saturday night, President Donald Trump hinted that he would sign the farm bill this week and that he hopes Democrats will join him on health care and infrastructure bills in 2019.

USDA is one of several federal departments that could face a shutdown if Congress doesn't come to terms over funding for a border wall by the latest Dec. 21 deadline. USDA's annual $23 billion or so agricultural appropriations bill remains tied up in the talks.

Complications have arisen over the second tranche of trade-aid payments to farmers that was initially expected to be announced last week, but delays continue.

With Congress in the twilight of its session, House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders agreed to a final version of the bill, which was posted Monday night on the House Rules Committee website, setting up the House to vote on the bill as early as Wednesday with a Senate...

The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management on Thursday published revised plans to conserve greater sage grouse populations across nearly 70 million acres of public land in 11 Western states. The Trump administration's approach will replace the original Obama-era plans...

House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., told reporters earlier this week that he expects the bill to be filed Monday and to be voted on by the House next Wednesday or Thursday, with the Senate to follow a day later, the Star Tribune reported.

The ownership and production of the Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Report, an annual analysis of the gaps between agricultural production and future global population growth, is moving from the Global Harvest Initiative, a Washington-based nonprofit organization whose...

President George H.W. Bush's death and plans for him to lie in state at the Capitol with a funeral Wednesday at the National Cathedral are changing the schedule for both Congress and the executive branch of government this week, which is likely to affect the congressional...

President George H.W. Bush's death and plans for him to lie in state at the Capitol with a funeral Wednesday at the National Cathedral are changing the schedule for both Congress and the executive branch of government this week, which is likely to affect the congressional...

The White House issued a statement late Saturday detailing the "highly successful meeting" between Trump and Xi and their staffs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On trade, President Trump has agreed that he will not raise tariffs on January 1, 2019, on $200 billion worth of product...

Congressional leaders appear to be trying to bring up the farm bill in the House and Senate next week. A spokesman for House Agriculture Committee Michael Conaway, R-Texas, told DTN on Friday that Conaway "hopes" to bring the bill to the floor next week.

The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee agreed with his counterparts late Wednesday that the leaders on the House and Senate committees negotiating a farm bill have reached an agreement, but there are still a lot of details to work out before the legislation is moved...