The farm bill process, which is always long and winding, is well underway. Much of the work occurring now is listening to growers and their associations. The House and Senate Agriculture committees, ...

April 15 is the deadline to sign-up for the 2025 farm program at local USDA Farm Service Agency offices throughout the United States or online at the USDA FSA website. Eligible producers are able to ...

This year, Congress is charged with passing the next iteration of the farm bill. If the broad suite of programs within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are not reauthorized by the ...

With House Republicans pushing for significant cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, several House Agriculture Committee members urged additional support and funding to strengthen ...

The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) most recent Baseline for Farm Programs, released on May 12, identifies expected outlays for farm program spending, assuming existing programs continue without ...

House GOP leaders overcame Republican objections to Senate provisions on SNAP, rural hospitals and other issues to clear President Donald Trump’s massive spending and tax package, including a historic ...

For over seven decades, many of the programs authorized by successive farm bills have been subject to sunset mandates, including in the current farm bill, the 2018 Agriculture Improvement Act, whose ...

With commodity prices down and farm returns expected to significantly decline, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has released three major changes to its farm loan programs in an effort to increase the ...

The marathon markup began Tuesday evening and resumed Wednesday morning, lasting into the night. House Agriculture Committee Republicans on Wednesday approved their portion of the GOP’s big tax and ...

If you love something, set it on fire. Especially if the thing you love is a healthy pasture. For grasslands, fire is a crucial part of a healthy ecosystem and an important tool for a rancher. Not ...

Southern producers with cotton, rice and peanut base acreage would see farm program payments more than double, while growers in other regions would see smaller increases under the GOP farm bill the ...