By Ryan Hanrahan Punchbowl News’ Samantha Handler reported late last week that “a farm bill battle is brewing for the fall when a set of key agriculture programs that GOP leaders neglected in their massive reconciliation package will expire.” “Agriculture Committee Republicans cleared away most of the farm bill in…

Roger Wenning shares how tiling, grid sampling, no till, cover crops, and nutrient management helped him transform multiple types of tough soils on his Indiana farm. The once erosion-prone hills and ‘crawdad ground’ have seen yields climb from 30 bushels below to 40 bushels over the county average. Watch Our…

by Galen Bacharier Multiple Hurricane Helene aid programs in North Carolina are clearing key bureaucratic hurdles, state officials said Friday, as thousands in the mountains await help for their homes and farms nearly one year after the storm. A new state fund created to reimburse farmers for lost crops has…

This week’s U.S. Drought Monitor showed more changes in areas of dryness and drought across the U.S. Heavy to locally excessive rainfall engendered broad areas of improvement in much of the Southeast, the lower Great Lakes region, the central and northern Great Plains, and many locations across the High Plains…

USDA published the latest Crop Progress report on Monday, Aug. 4. Here’s a closer look at recent weather and the status of Pennsylvania’s most important crops in early August. Weather Arthur Person, associate research professor in the Penn State Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science said in a PennState Extension…

A ranch in Wyoming so vast it’s bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and more than four times the size of New York City, is now for sale, with an asking price of $79.5 million. The Pathfinder Ranches, totaling more than 916,000 acres (about 1,431 square miles), stretch across…