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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture will relocate to the Kansas City region from the Washington, D.C., area. The other areas that had been considered were North Carolina and Indiana. “Following a...

Growers intend to plant 84.6 million acres in 2019, down 5 percent from the 89.1 million acres planted last year, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service Prospective Plantings Report released March 29. Compared with last year, planted acreage...

Increasingly, food companies, environmental organizations and agricultural commodity groups are setting ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farms. These goals are realized through conservation practices such as reduced tillage farming, and precision technologies, like autosteer tractors. Yet, there’s...

All Farm Service Agency offices nationwide will reopen shortly to provide additional administrative services to farmers and ranchers during the government shutdown. The announcement by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue came after select FSA offices provided limited hours of service...

Don't look for any type of U.S. Department of Agriculture market reports, ag statistics or supply and demand estimates as long as the government remains shut down. That was the status update the USDA issued Dec. 28, 2018, one of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a 60-day public comment period on a proposed rule to establish a National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. The standard, mandated by Congress in 2016, will provide a uniform way to offer meaningful disclosure for...

Farmers are urged to complete the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2017 Census of Agriculture, which should be arriving in their mailboxes in December. The census can be returned by mail or securely submitted online. University of Missouri Extension economist Ryan Milhollin...

The U.S. Senate confirmed former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as the secretary of agriculture, April 24, on an 87-11 vote. As head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Perdue will be in charge of a staff of about 100,000 employees. He...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that growers nationwide will plant a record 89.5 million acres of soybeans, up 7 percent from 2016, according to its March 31 prospective plantings report. The report is based on surveys the USDA conducted in...