Agriculture

During his first presidential term, Donald Trump attempted to cut funding to hunger programs, implemented agricultural tariffs, tax cuts, and record-setting payments to commodity farmers, and rolled back regulations impacting...

By Leah Douglas Jan 17 (Reuters) - Immigrant farmworkers are preparing for incoming U.S. president Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, including by assigning guardians for their children if they...

Irrigating Almonds, Four Crops Per Drop   By Patrick Cavanaugh, Ag Information Network   There are significant myths regarding almonds. Most of it is about how they use too much...

DAILY Bites The USDA released an interim rule offering technical guidelines for climate-smart crops used as biofuel feedstocks, addressing gaps in the Clean Fuels Production (45Z) tax credit. A beta...

Last year challenged the commercial horticulture and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry in almost every way possible. Whether greenhouse, vertical or indoor production of fresh produce, or other specialty crops,...

The National Agricultural Law Center compiles and publishes a quarterly newsletter highlighting recent and upcoming events and resources. The newsletter for... The post The NALC Quarterly Newsletter: 4Q24 appeared first...

The 2024 calendar year ended with a flurry of Congressional activity. In the early morning of December 21, 2024, Congress passed, and the President signed the American Relief Act, averting...

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This article first appeared in Pacific NW Magazine, the Sunday magazine of The Seattle Times, and has been republished with permission. Spooning buttercream into a pastry bag, Kim Holloway is...

By Peter Hobson and Michael Hogan CANBERRA/HAMBURG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Chicago corn and soybean futures remained around multi-month highs on Monday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cut its estimates...