There are 27.9 million beef cows in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, down 1% from last year. The number of milk cows in the U.S.

Local farmers face an uncertain future as the closure of the USAID program, a major buyer of agricultural products, impacts crop sales and research benefits. Farmers such as Zach Talbott express ...

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Illinois farmers produced 688 million bushels of soybeans in 2024 ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is encouraging farmers to take part in its annual pesticide and fertilizer use survey. This year the phone survey is directed at corn and soybean growers.

As of December 1, 2024, the total inventory of all chickens in Wisconsin (excluding commercial broilers) was 10.3 million, an increase of 4% from the previous year. The value of these chickens rose ...

The Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) is a shallow revenue loss program. Nationally, there are two different options for ARC — based on either county or individual benchmarks — but only ARC-CO ...

The Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, NRI, has published the latest Texas Land Trends Program report, “Status Update and ...

There were 86.7 million head of cattle and calves on U.S. farms as of Jan. 1, 2025, according to the Cattle report published ...

The nationwide spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, also known as avian or bird flu, has many in Illinois ...

According to the latest USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Agricultural Prices report, the average price farmers in Wisconsin received for corn in December 2024 was $4.03 per bushel. This ...

Chain and local restaurants are feeling the heat from a nationwide shortage of eggs due to the bird flu which has driven up ...