Month: September 2025

The former Deputy Secretary of the USDA says staff shortages at local USDA offices limit the ability to serve rural America well. In a U.S. House Ag Subcommittee hearing on Thursday, Xochitl Torres Small told [Read More…]

The U.S. Senate has confirmed three undersecretaries at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That includes the Under Secretary of Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Dudley Hoskins, and Dr. Scott Hutchins as the Under Secretary of Agriculture [Read More…]

Food price inflation has continued to rise. David Ortega, a food economist with Michigan State University, says there are a couple of areas that are driving the increase in the cost of groceries. AUDIO: Healthy [Read More…]

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Two state ag leaders say they’re glad to see USDA considering all options to help farmers navigate a tough ag economy, including ad-hoc assistance. Wes Ward, the ag secretary in Arkansas, and past president of [Read More…]

Eastern equine encephalitis has been confirmed in Indiana for the first time since 2020. The Indiana State Board of Animal Health says the disease was detected in an unvaccinated six-year-old gelding in LaGrange County. EEE, [Read More…]

Two analysts say U.S. farmers should be paying attention as Brazil continues to have a competitive advantage over the U.S. in soybean production. “We’re losing markets and we were losing China before this trade war.” [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle futures were supported by supply tightness ahead of Friday’s USDA Cattle on Feed report. Ahead of that report, analysts all major categories to be below a [Read More…]

A southern Wisconsin farmer has concerns about corn withstanding strong winds ahead of harvest. Doug Rebout of Janesville says crops have benefited from good conditions this summer. “Really tall (corn), I mean they’re healthy stalks. [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling. The big bearish issue is the lack of new crop export demand from China due to tariff tensions. China remained absent from the U.S. soybean market [Read More…]