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EarthFresh, Atlanta, is offering its line of conventional and organic potatoes in 100% compostable paper bags. The switch is being made as consumers look for alternatives.

Beijing will allow importers to apply for tariff exemptions for nearly 700 U.S. products including farm and energy goods, as China continues grappling with the coronavirus.

Producers in Iowa and Illinois reaped 20% of the trade war payments from the Trump administration, as cash disbursements leaped to nearly $10.2 billion.

All states produce at least some pumpkins, but according to the 2017 U.S. Census of Agriculture, about 62 percent of pumpkin acres were grown in only ten States.

Mexico's Senate has voted to ratify the new trade agreement with the United States and Canada making them the first to gain legislative approval.

America’s largest retail grocer, Walmart has filed suit against various U.S. poultry companies alleging a conspiracy to inflate chicken prices.

China is proposing it could buy an additional $30 billion a year of U.S. agricultural products including soybeans, corn and wheat as part of a possible trade deal.

In the battling tariffs, China is scouting for alternative suppliers for soybeans and Brazil is looking to replace the U.S. as the world’s largest grower soybean.

BOISE (AP) — U.S. officials say three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe to eat.
The approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U...

The dairy industry reportedly lost nearly $420 million from one single foundation bull with a lethal gene mutation that causes calves to die in the womb. This is a peril in selective breeding. On the positive side, that same foundation bull with nearly 2 million great-grandaughters accounts for 14 p…