A letter to USDA from the House Agriculture Committee calls on the department to deal with several questions going on within the cattle industry. The congressmen want USDA to tap t... [Read Full Blog]

While the National Grain and Feed Association largely supports the CFTC's fifth attempt to create a position limits rule, its official statement on the rule offers a number of sugg... [Read Full Blog]

Late summer ushers in stark differences in central U.S. rainfall and associated drought conditions.

As federal lawmakers continue work on a possible COVID-19 economic relief package, members of the House Biofuels Caucus are asking House and Senate leaders to include specific lang... [Read Full Blog]

Surprise packages in the mailbox aren't necessarily welcome, and this week many received envelopes containing unidentified seeds. Recipients are being asked not to plant or discard... [Read Full Blog]

When I was kid growing up on our eastern Nebraska farm, my dad purchased an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). This was in the early 1980s and he got a three-wheeler, which he used to chec... [Read Full Blog]

In hindsight, the 2019 Tyson packing plant fire has a different feel to it than it did at the time. Now, with having endured a packing plant fire and a disease outbreak, there's no... [Read Full Blog]