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Luther Markwart, CEO and executive vice president at the American Sugarbeet Growers Association for the past 44 years, will retire at the end of 2026, according to an announcement from the group’s board of directors.
Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced a multiyear strategic alliance to develop AI-powered tools for agriculture, including a digital assistant called Oz.
Expiring expanded premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance will be a big issue for Congress in its post-holiday stretch. Democrats were promised a vote on the issue as part of a deal to reopen the government.
Using renewable fuels to power heavy farm machinery never took off during the initial surge in U.S. biodiesel and ethanol production. Now, with electric vehicles, including tractors, threatening liquid fuels, there's optimism that more home-grown fuels will soon stay on the farm.
A paper purportedly demonstrating the safety of glyphosate that has historically been “a cornerstone in the assessment of glyphosate's safety” has been retracted, according to the co-editor of the journal in which it was published, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology .
The Trump administration’s big farm aid package is expected to be announced next week, and Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden tells Agri-Pulse “a wide variety of commodity crops” will be eligible for the program.
The Agriculture Department will complete a reorganization of more than half the current D.C.-based staff to five regional hubs across the U.S. by the end of 2026, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden confirmed on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers .
On the first day of a three-day public hearing, ag industry representatives described how, for some commodities, the deal has been a boon to U.S. ag exports, while others face existential threats from rising Mexican imports.
Advocates of conservation practices and cover crops are looking to speed up the development of new crop insurance products by going around USDA to start testing coverage for growers who want to produce rye as a cover crop and cash crop.
The State Department says it is developing new funding awards for Feed the Future labs, many of which have been in limbo since the administration froze funding earlier this year.
In this opinion piece, Missouri farmer Blake Hurst argues that farmers are being taken for granted and should be willing to criticize policies that take trade and agriculture policy in the wrong direction.
Groups representing different sectors of the cannabis industry are at odds over the recently passed hemp legislation that seeks to rein in purveyors of hemp-derived products containing THC, the cannabinoid that produces the high sought by consumers.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that the administration will make an announcement on further payments to farmers suffering from export losses next week.
The Trump administration is backing Bayer’s bid for Supreme Court review of whether federal law pre-empts pesticide lawsuits filed in state courts.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza is once again spreading through poultry flocks across the U.S., but on a smaller scale than past outbreaks. Still, experts warn that an uptick in cases could occur this winter.
