biofuels

The National Corn Growers Association launched a grassroots campaign to encourage the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to provide a level playing field for biofuels like ethanol.

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to California’s Prop 12, approved by voters in 2018, that bans the sale of pork from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces.

Portland, Oregon’s city council has voted to phase out petroleum diesel and replace the product with biofuels. US looks resolution to a lingering trade dispute with Mexico over biotech corn imports.

**California’s almond production for 2022 is expected to be 11% lower than last year. That’s according to the state almond forecast published recently by the USDA’s National Ag Statistic Service. Last year, California produced 2.92 billion meat p...

A global food crisis is expected this fall amid the war in Ukraine and other factors, and a House Ag panel is looking at U.S. overseas food aid programs.

Food inflation is up for the ninth straight month matching the U.S. inflation rate of 7.9% a year, with double-digit increases in the price of meat, milk, and fresh fruit.

The next two weeks may be crunch time for California ranchers, who are hoping for rain to get their pastures growing and keep their livestock fed.

A Successful Farming article quotes a former USDA official who says the 2023 legislation could be in trouble if the political turbulence surrounding the last two farm bills keeps going.

Water projects in the West stand to benefit from the Senate’s recent passage of a bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Along with shortages of water and of qualified employees, farmers have also been coping with a shortage of wooden pallets.