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Agricultural credit stress rises amid lower crop prices and higher input costs, signaling challenges for farmers.

The USDA’s proposed changes to how milk should be priced could impact dairy farmers in California more negatively than other states. Farmers are on track to harvest some of their biggest corn and soybean crops ever.

New USDA proposals aim to level the playing field for poultry growers and farmers, addressing payment abuses and promoting fair competition.

Get insights into the economic challenges faced by agricultural producers amidst high interest rates and declining cash receipts.

U.S. organic produce sales topped $9 billion in 2021, up $477 million from 2020, according to the Organic Produce Network.

According to the Farm Credit Administration’s quarterly report on economic issues, record agricultural exports are contributing to favorable economic conditions for the U.S. farm sector

A pest might have met its match. Oregon State University entomologist looks at the soil-nesting wasp. It could be a potential biological control for BMSB.

The Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index dropped again in November. The FOA Thursday released the price index, which averaged 156.7 points in November, down 2.6 points, or 1.6 percent from October. Except sugar prices, all commodities included in the price index dropped under continued pressure of a strong dollar and generally abundant supplies...

A bill slashing Environmental Protection Agency funding and blocking several of its new regulations is scheduled to pass through the House Appropriations Committee, this week. Republicans are pushing an Interior and Environment funding bill that cuts $718 million, or 9 percent, from the EPA’s budget in fiscal 2016, on top of the 20 percent cut the agency has absorbed since Republicans took the Hou