As large landowners farmers in the United States are often left with large property tax obligations on a yearly basis but Pennsylvania is making a move to alleviate that burden on the state's farmers. Read More »

The Northwestern Agricultural Research Center, a division of the Montana State University Montana Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) has developed a wheat variety that is resistant to the orange blossom wheat midge. Read More »

President Barack Obama on Wednesday vetoed a measure that rejects an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule giving the federal government sweeping authority to regulate all waters or wet areas in the United States. Read More »

Language in a Senate bill called the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill, which would expand the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) to include frozen, canned and dried fruits and vegetables, has the support of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC). Read More »

Farmers and industry supporters will join together on March 3 in New Orleans to participate in a social and auction held by the American Soybean Association.  Read More »

Sivanto prime insecticide from Bayer has been trade-enabled, effective immediately, in the NAFTA region and Japan after maximum residue limits (MRL) for its active ingredient, Flupyradifurone, were established for key crops, including fruits and vegetables. Read More »

The American Association for the Advancement of Science will award the honor of Fellow to Ravi Singh, a scientist from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center on Feb. 13 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Read More »

This year has opened the potential of the trade market between Cuba and the United States, with the U.S Department of Agriculture reporting sales of 1.9 million bushels of U.S. corn to Cuba. Read More »

During the Conservation-Tillage Cotton & Rice Conference this month, Dr. Eric Webster reminded participants about the advantage to planting Clearfield Rice. Read More »

National Corn Growers Association President Chip Bowling had kind words for outgoing USDA Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden. Read More »

OREON, the newest fungicide from AMVAC Chemical Corp., has both contact and systemic activity that combats common turf diseases which affect golf courses specifically, including anthracnose (Colletotrichum cereale), dollar spot (Sclerotinia homoeocarpa) and brown patch (Rhizoctonia solani). Read More »

Assistant professor at Cornell University and adjunct wheat breeder and quantitative geneticist from the International Maize and Improvement Center Jessica Rutkoski will speak at the Pathogens Without Borders session of the American Association of the Advancement of Science 2016 Annual Meeting. Read More »

The amendment to Senate Bill 659, the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015, has found support from nearly 100 organizations including the American Soybean Association (ASA).  Read More »

The U.S. Grains Council’s Grain Export Mission recently gave 11 U.S. farmers the chance to meet with customers from China and the Philippines, letting them gain a better perspective of the challenges, opportunities and competition U.S grains face within the Asian nations.  Read More »

The American Farm Bureau Federation is asking farmers around the United States to share their feedback on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs through the USDA Program Survey.  Read More »

American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) President Zippy Duvall took office this month, saying at a news conference one of his main concerns is the protection of farm freedoms. Read More »

The U.S. Senate’s Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill to expand the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is receiving support from the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Read More »

The new FieldView Drive, launched by a division of Monsanto Co. called The Climate Corp., is a device that provides seamless data connection for farmers to transfer their field data from their farming equipment to their Climate FieldView account via Bluetooth. Read More »

The “Pathogens Without Borders” session of the American Association of the Advancement of Science annual meeting will include a discussion from David Hodson, a senior scientist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center who is based in Ethiopia. Read More »

The Environmental Protection Agency released data on record numbers of biodiesel use in time for the 2016 Biodiesel Conference and Expo.  Read More »