Chris Clayton

Leaders of the United Soybean Board are meeting near Omaha this week as they work on their policy and strategies for the next year, including defining key areas of emphasis. The tariff situation remains an overriding theme, as it...

DTN has been asking more questions about what drove the decision to eliminate us and several other news agencies from early access to major crop reports such as the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. While...

The Food and Drug Administration, jumping ahead of USDA, used a hearing Thursday to highlight the agency's extensive scientific history working with cell-culture technology, something USDA is...

The U.S. Senate voted 88-11 Wednesday on a resolution seeking to have more say when the president and his team use national security arguments as a reason to impose tariffs on other countries. It was the first vote Congress...

Early Tuesday, the White House announced it had pardoned a pair of Oregon ranchers who were convicted under an antiterrorism law after fires from their ranch also burned federal lands. Their...

Soybean planted acreage came in 500,000 acres higher than corn as soybeans topped 89.6 million acres this spring while planted corn acreage was 89.1 million acres.

The Senate voted 86-11 to pass a farm bill and set up a chance to conference with the House to get a new farm bill completed before the current one expires at the end of September.

Language in the House version of the farm bill would help farm associations start or promote health plans for their members. The language comes as the U.S. Department of Labor is expected to finalize language meant to expand...

The House version of the farm bill got its votes, all Republican, after House leadership agreed to hold votes on immigration bills championed by conservatives. The bill is comparable to the Senate version in several areas, except...

The legislative failure of an immigration bill leaves agricultural employers with the current H-2A program run by the U.S. Department of Labor, which many farm groups have criticized as laborious and impractical in farm operations...

An overhaul of the agricultural guest-worker program will be part of the immigration packages that the U.S. House of Representatives will likely debate on Thursday.

China responded late Friday with 25 percent tariffs against U.S. soybeans and pork products, as well as tariffs against automobiles and other products. The move comes after the Trump administration announced 25 percent tariffs...

The Trump administration on Friday announced 25% tariffs on Chinese goods that contain "industrially significant technologies." The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Association of Equipment Manufacturers are among the groups...

With the Trump administration expected to announce tariffs Friday against China, farm groups are worried about the expected Chinese response. On Thursday, groups went to social media to call on Congress and the Trump...

Despite the risks of tariffs affecting sales, USDA's trade undersecretary noted that this week's trade mission to Japan is the largest in recent memory at USDA as agribusinesses and states work on business leads.

U.S. dairy groups like the attention President Donald Trump is bringing to Canada's supply management system, but the international dispute over the president's tweets involves a minor overall part of U.S.-Canada trade.

Kentucky was one of the early states to re-embrace hemp production as a way to diversify tobacco in the state. The crop is miniscule in acreage but growing as state officials shine a spotlight on the industry. Now, at least 42...

The Senate farm bill makes a few tweaks to the ARC program and tightens the income level for farmers receiving program payments, but the Senate largely avoids the major controversy around food aid that has led to a partisan...

Blockchain transactions for food are still in their infancy, but there are increasing examples of how a product such as milk or avocados can be tracked from a restaurant back to its origins and could improve consumer confidence.

The battle between biofuel supporters and EPA has gone on for months as the agency continues granting an "unprecedented number of retroactive small refinery exemptions," as biofuel groups noted in their news release. The...

The European Union, Canada and Mexico all vowed to place their own retaliatory tariffs against U.S. products after the Trump administration moved ahead with new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Agricultural products, including...

A conditional approval of the Bayer-Monsanto merger was announced Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department, clearing a major hurdle for the $62.5 billion merger to be completed later this summer.

Agriculture was highlighted in a joint statement issued by the U.S. and China on Saturday following trade talks between the two countries. President Donald Trump also tweeted out optimism Monday morning about higher U.S...

Chinese officials found that a 178.6% tariff imposed against U.S. sorghum would hurt its aquaculture and pork industries. U.S. sorghum producers were relieved by the announcement.

Initial debate on the farm bill, HR 2, could begin Wednesday on the House of Representatives floor. The letters of support and opposition continued as various groups, including House Agriculture Committee Republicans, took to social...

Much of the lead-up to the House farm bill floor debate has been on changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Several amendments to change the House Agriculture Committee's provisions on commodity programs and...

With the delivery of typical commodities and food products such as wheat, sugar and grits, the Founding Farmers restaurant chain in Washington, D.C., shows one more way to spotlight its farmer ownership by the North Dakota...

Former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., says the argument over national fuel economy standards matters to farmers because the fuel-economy fix would require greater levels of higher-octane fuel, which means higher blend levels of...

A private agricultural analytic firm issued a report challenging USDA's methodology for putting together the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, arguing USDA could rely more on satellite images and release data...

President Donald Trump will meet Thursday with leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to talk about the farm bill. The president is expected to encourage the House GOP to keep tougher work requirements in the...

Science is moving fast and arguments are heating up over how to define and regulate protein products grown from cultured cells in a lab rather than raised in a pasture and slaughtered.

A proposed rule by USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service details the standard USDA will use to determine a label for foods made with ingredients derived from biotech crops.

Talks begin in China on Wednesday over trade disputes between the U.S. and China. The chief of the U.S. Soybean Export Council hopes the talks expected Wednesday and Thursday yield some results for the U.S. relationship with...

After years of work and advancing the percentage levels, Minnesota diesel pumps will be filled with a 20% biodiesel blend as part of a state mandate between May and the end of September. Industry leaders say it's been a long haul...

Sorghum took a significant hit April 17 when China announced a 178.6% antidumping tariff on U.S. sorghum. Texas farmers have already been shifting acres away from sorghum in recent years because of better prospects with other...

A group of 65 organizations sent a letter Thursday to every member of the House of Representatives, urging them not to propose amendments to the farm bill that would harm crop insurance. Some conservative organizations are...

A group of senators introduced legislation on Thursday to help states cope with the rate of farmer suicides and stress over economic conditions on farms and ranches.