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The USDA is reminding specialty crop growers that the deadline for submitting applications for Coronavirus Food Assistance Program is today.

In a letter to the USDA and DHHS, the American Dairy Coalition is requesting they look into concerns farmers have with the new Dietary Guidelines for America.

Cherry growers in the northern San Joaquin Valley say they avoided severe losses from mid-May rainstorms that threatened the ripening fruit.

USDA estimates that U.S. growers will plant 97 million acres of corn this spring, an 8% increase over 2019, but sharp declines in ethanol production make it doubtful.

Canada’s government is exempting foreign nationals who have committed to working in agriculture from COVID-19 travel bans.

**Farmers can expect a cash injection of billions of dollars in Trump tariff payments later this month or in December.
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue tells agriculture.com, “We hope that trade will supplant the need for aid in 2020,” pointing to progress in negotiations to reso…

Farmers have done their best since April to get the 2019 corn crop in the ground. Unfortunately, Mother Nature continues to knock them down.

As the push toward healthier soils expands, the use of cover crops does as well across the country planting 50% more cover crop acres, at 15.4 million in 2017.

A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel found China has administered its tariff-rate quotas for wheat, corn, and rice inconsistently with its WTO commitments.

Spring flooding in the northern Plains and western Corn Belt will have a marginal impact on corn and soybean plantings.