Farm legislation usually has enough incentives to satisfy everyone across the partisan divide in Congress. Not this year. The Republican...
Articles by Alan Bjerga
In the U.S, government-backed insurance plans help compensate farmers for losses after natural disasters. Unfortunately for the produce growers that...
The U.S. crop insurance market has been abandoned by some of its largest companies as lower agricultural prices crimp revenue,...
Determined to avoid a repeat of the nation’s worst-ever avian-influenza outbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is stockpiling up to...
The year is 2026. Flooding, worsened by climate change, has devastated Bangladesh and driven millions of hungry refugees to its...
The Senate passed and sent to President Barack Obama a measure that sets U.S. agricultural policy for five years, ending...
Crop insurers successfully lobbied to keep several proposals out of the farm bill set to pass the U.S. Congress today...
The U.S. House passed and sent the Senate a much-delayed bill to set agricultural policy for five years, as a...
Editor’s Note: The House of Representatives passed the bill this morning. For the update, read here. Deep cuts in U.S....
House and Senate negotiators adjourned talks on a new agricultural bill until after a congressional recess, increasing the chances of...