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The USDA says farmers who hire H-2A laborers next year will be paying higher wages, and in some cases, the increase is large.

Marcia Bunger, Risk Management Agency Administrator for USDA talks about popular programs for US producers.

In a squat 1,100-square-foot building on the outskirts of Helena lies a pile of enormous tongues. They are thick and leaden, stacked on a steel table

The USDA says all but three states in the country have been infected with bird flu and Ohio has the second-highest number of cases.

How does a food product get put on the shelves or in the freezers of our grocery stores without benefit of inspection? Inquiring minds would like to know how that happens.

Artichoke production on California’s Central Coast has steadily fallen over the past three decades, and the 2018 spread of African swine fever to China had reverberations in the global pork market, according to new USDA data.

Skyrocketing sugar prices left Ishaq Abdulraheem with few choices. Increasing the cost of bread would mean declining sales, so the Nigerian baker decided to cut his production by half.

The Agriculture Department’s new guidance builds on previous agency plans, and looks to improve data sharing and incorporate artificial intelligence int...

The government could save taxpayers “hundreds of millions per year” by reducing crop insurance companies’ rate of return on the program in line with market conditions, according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

The grants are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture.