The Appropriations Committee will meet at 10 a.m. to consider a trio of fiscal 2021 measures, including the Agriculture-FDA bill. (Politico)  

Last month USDA announced alternative housing resources for season ag laborers and other ag workforce. Learn more on our USDA page.

Bayer AG is scrapping a $1.25 billion proposal for resolving future lawsuits over whether its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, highlighting the difficulty of settling litigation over a product still on … Read More

The local Prairie Farms Dairy operation will end production and lay off 62 employees in the coming weeks as it moves to a distribution-only facility, the organization said in filings … Read More

Illinois’ young corn crop was rated Sunday as 13 percent excellent, 48 percent good, 31 percent fair and 8 percent poor or very poor, according to the U.S. Department of … Read More

At least 17,000 meat and poultry processing facility workers in the U.S. have been infected with COVID-19, the vast majority being racial and ethnic minorities, the Centers for Disease Control … Read More

U.S. meat production, upended earlier this year by the coronavirus pandemic, which shuttered meatpacking plants around the country, has rebounded to near-normal levels, Agriculture Department figures show, but workers still … Read More

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in Washington for meetings Wednesday with U.S. President Donald Trump days after a new trade deal among the two countries and Canada went … Read More

Last month the Illinois Farmers Market Association updated its COVID-19 guidelines featuring best practice recommendations for social distancing and enhanced sanitation. You can find all of the resources on our … Read More

The U.S. government delivered far less food aid than it had pledged by the end of June, according to food bank managers and data from the agriculture department sent to … Read More