It's been a challenging past year and a half, with the majority of pork producers experiencing negative profit margins.

USDA Reports Crop Conditions Starting Off On a Positive Note.

A large portion of the corn-producing region has moved into the late planting stages this past week.

The reliance on precision farming continues to grow, with GPS being used on 70% of U.S. planted cropland.

The USDA rolled out a voluntary bird flu surveillance program that allows participating farms to bypass specific animal shipment requirements if the herds test negative for three consecutive weeks.

Black seed penycress is a persistent weed that comes up year after year. However, modifying a gene in wild pennycress promises to transform the weed into a cash crop.

Soybean midge gall had been identified at trapping sites in Saunders and Lancaster counties in east-central Nebraska.

A third dairy worker in this U.S. has contracted bird flu from a previously infected herd. This is the second dairy in Michigan with a confirmed case of dairy cow-to-human transmission.

The Packer's Sustainability Insights 2024 survey revealed more than three-quarters of consumers place some priority on sustainability when purchasing produce.

The USDA Economic Research Service predicts the agricultural deficit will widen to $32 billion in 2024. This is an increase of $1.5 billion from the February projection.