agriculture

The imposition of Chinese tariffs on American pork products is a wake-up call for all industrial hog producers. Encouraged by large multinational corporations that they must "feed the world," these contract farmers fell for the corporate line and thus became dependent upon the export...

House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson announced that Katie Zenk has joined the House Agriculture Committee Minority staff as professional staff. "Katie will bring impressive policy knowledge to the committee and will play an important role in developing policy...

U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa has reintroduced legislation, which, if passed, could effectively block states from setting basic standards for the production or manufacture of agricultural products within their borders, including how animals are raised. The proposed legislation would...

The number of U.S. farmland sales and the value of ag land that was sold both rose last year, a new national survey finds. But neither farmland values nor ag land sales rose much as overall land sales or land values, according to the annual survey released recently by the Realtors...