Chris Clayton

China responded Tuesday to President Donald Trump's latest tariffs with a new round of 5% to 10% tariffs on U.S. products. A coalition of organizations critical of the tariffs criticized the...

President Donald Trump late Monday announced new tariffs on roughly $200 billion in goods from China effective Sept. 24.

While it's too early to make specific damage calculations, Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina with nearly all of the state's cotton and half of its tobacco in the fields. As of now, it's hard to navigate the state because of the...

As biofuel plants struggle under the Renewable Fuel Standard right now, a climate event in San Francisco looks at how low-carbon fuels standards have boosted ethanol use in California and could drive more biofuel demand if Midwest...

Several commodity groups representing dairy producers and grain farmers questioned USDA's methodology when the department released final numbers for its trade aid package. USDA emphasized the main focus was examining how much...

During a two-day "Scaling Up Climate Smart Agriculture" event this week, California officials and agricultural leaders brought in producers and perspectives from around the country to highlight the importance of adapting...

As a farmer, the stress from crops failing or animals dying; or family division or insurance woes; or any number of other things can be hard to bear, and at times, hard to share.

Among key leaders on the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, there was agreement on the need to get a farm bill done before the current bill expires Sept. 30. Others in the conference meeting Wednesday highlighted an array...

An analysis of three farmers and their conservation practices showed the net returns were positive. The report by the Environmental Defense Fund and agricultural accounting firm K-Coe Isom detailed farmer expenses and gains...

North Dakota State University held a press conference Thursday to highlight how the current trade dispute largely between the U.S. and China will end up disrupting normal harvest, rail shipping and storage for farmers in the...

States are waiting to see if the Supreme Court is going to take up cases against livestock and poultry animal-welfare standards set by California and Massachusetts laws. The cases focus on the same debate revolving around a...

Farmers officially can start applying Tuesday for the Trump administration's trade-aid package at their local Farm Service Agency offices. However, farmers will need to show actual production for crops, so they will need to wait...

The Trump administration, feeling the need to meet a deadline with Congress, announced it will submit a new trade deal with Mexico and could add Canada later. Talks between the U.S. and Canada this week did reach an agreement...

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue got a lot of questions Wednesday about trade, but he also said President Donald Trump called him and encouraged Perdue to tell farmers that year-round E15 needs to get done.

USDA leaders announced more details of the trade aid package on Monday. Sign-up starts Sept. 4, but farmers will need to show actual production for fall-harvested crops such as soybeans, corn, sorghum and cotton before they...

A tentative trade deal between the U.S. and Mexico announced on Monday puts pressure on Canada in talks with the U.S. to keep the trade agreement a trilateral deal. President Donald Trump said manufacturers and farmers would be...

Before details about an Iowa murder case were known, the House of Representatives was championing a potential vote in September on the "Ag and Legal Workforce Act," or HR 6417, which would replace the current H-2A agricultural...

Theft of intellectual property and protection of trade secrets were highlighted last week at an agricultural technology and law conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. An FBI agent pointed to some of the common mistakes made that...

The prospects of blockchain technology came up repeatedly this week at an Ag Technology and The Law conference put on this week in Arkansas. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said the ability to develop blockchain tools for major...

Along with a poorer economic situation, the Federal Reserve's Tenth District also reported credit conditions for farmers are deteriorating, and bankers are also seeing a modest rise in problems with loan repayment. That's also...

The gag order is tied to civil litigation related to at least three verdicts against Murphy-Brown LLC, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods. Farm Bureau groups filed a court brief arguing those whose livelihoods are most affected are...

Farmers for Free Trade announced Wednesday its plans to buy advertising in radio, television and print that will run in Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The group opposes the...

Officials in China announced on Friday the country is planning to place tariffs on $60 billion more in U.S. products, following the Trump administration plan for 25% tariffs on $200 billion more in imports from China.

Iowa Soybean Association representatives on Wednesday indicated there were no specific commitments to buy more U.S. soybeans among the groups they met and countries they visited in Europe. But EU officials are making a point...

While ADM reported a strong second quarter of the year and cited high protein demand, Bunge reported a loss because of hedging losses and currency problems in Argentina.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue held a call with reporters Monday following the G20 agricultural ministerial talks in Argentina that wrapped up during the weekend. He talked about aid and also working with European officials...

The White House made a major push this week to ease concerns among the president's rural base about the agricultural economy.

At a press conference Wednesday following talks between European Union leaders and President Donald Trump, the president announced that EU officials agreed to lower industrial tariffs on U.S. goods, work to buy more U.S. natural...

The National Sorghum Producers pushed for more than two years to get sorghum oil as part of the Renewable Fuel Standard. EPA initially proposed the rule last December, noting in its proposed assessment that, as a biodiesel...

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, stressing that President Donald Trump continues to support U.S. farmers, on Tuesday announced up to $12 billion in aid for agriculture through three separate programs. Perdue called the trade...

The Washington Post, Politico and Dow Jones reported a $12 billion aid package for farmers announcement would come from the White House on Tuesday. USDA announced a press briefing Tuesday afternoon.

The CEO of the National Pork Board lays out how sustainability demands have changed for hog producers, leading to greater need to work with the soybean and corn industries to validate the water use and emissions from feed used...

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...

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...

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 lacking, even though USDA has authority...

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...

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.