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“The weaker dollar is making U.S. dairy products more competitive in the global marketplace, and that could help arrest the decline in U.S. dairy export volumes.”

A bipartisan quintet of House Ag Committee members visited Maine Monday for a listening session on the next farm bill, and many local speakers used the event to call for improved crop insurance in the region.

USDA announces new export sales.

(NASS) According to the USDA's latest weekly Crop Progress report released Monday, the U.S. corn crop conditio...

The territory Lucas Mohn covers in northeastern North Dakota shows a lot of variability in cereal grain crops, depending on planting time and whether timely rains fell during the hot, dry June.

The grains have been supported by friendly weather and escalations in conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

The Agriculture Department left its 2023 milk production forecast unchanged in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate report.

Corn crop condition steady week-over-week.

House Republican leaders have been struggling to get the votes to move a partisan fiscal 2024 funding bill for USDA and FDA ahead of the long summer recess, raising fresh doubts about how soon lawmakers can start working on the farm bill this fall. 

Andrew Kreidt, agronomy manager at Central Dakota Frontier Cooperative in New Salem, said spring wheat was planted late and in a hurry, then endured a hot June. Timely rains have helped save it.