Northern Plains Dairy Farmers Dumping Milk

Dairy producers in Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa are dumping milk. That’s according to Kris Bousquet, Executive Director of the…

Minnesota Farm Group Presidents Pleased RMA Providing Crop Insurance Flexibilities

Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith say USDA’s Risk Management Agency is providing flexibilities to aid producers who are…

The Food And Drug Administration Loosens Rules On Ethanol In Hand Sanitizer

The Food and Drug Administration has relaxed its regulations which will allow ethanol to be used for hand sanitizer which…

Pork And Beef Leaders Pleased Tyson Keeping Food Supply Chain Moving

Tyson Foods are distributing $60 million in bonuses to their frontline workers and truckers to keep the food distribution system…

USMCA Trade Agreement Facing Possible Implementation Delay

Implementation of the USMCA trade agreement could be delayed until July 1. Several key lawmakers had called on the U.S.…

Farm Group Leader Wants Agriculture Represented On Coronavirus Task Force

A California Congressman has written to the Trump administration asking that an ag expert be added to the White House’s…

OCM Wants Regulators To Disallow DFA Acquisition Of Majority Of Dean Foods

Dean Foods officials have announced that Dairy Farmers of America is the winning bidder to acquire 44 of their fluid…

Stockgrowers President Says Cattle Price Investigation And Aid Needed

Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling for an investigations of beef packing companies following the surge in wholesale beef…

Minnesota Governor Signs Bill Loosening Loan Restrictions For COVID 19 Pandemic Help

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed legislation that loosens restrictions for loans through the State Agriculture Department’s Rural Finance Authority…

CPA CEO Says Trump Administration Not Delaying Collection Of Tariff Duties

The Trump administration has reversed its earlier decision to delay collecting tariffs from U.S. trading partners due to the Covid…