The USDA has announced $1 billion in loan guarantees for rural businesses and ag producers that are not eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency loans. Read more about the USDA … Read More

U.S. live cattle futures fell on Wednesday, as cattle continue to back up, despite slaughter plants’ coming back online, traders said. (Reuters)

Outbreaks have been reported in fruit and vegetable packing facilities in California and New York. But as more farm workers hit the fields and packing facilities, the industry risks the … Read More

Farmers across the nation leaned more heavily upon the federal government last year to finance their agricultural operations amid low commodity prices and trade disputes, and more of the money … Read More

The Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, in collaboration with Microsoft, has created the Purdue Food and Agricultural Vulnerability Index online dashboard to quantify the potential risk to the … Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lifting the amount of biofuels that refiners must blend into their fuel next year to 20.17 billion gallons, from 20.09 billion this year, … Read More

President Donald Trump’s executive order late last month invoking the Defense Production Act to keep meat and poultry plants open got a ton of media attention, but there’s one big … Read More

On May 19, the USDA unveiled the details of its $16 billion Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. The program will provide direct payments to farmers and ranchers to partially offset COVID-19 … Read More

Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) updates have been added to our website. New additions include USDA’s video preview of the payment calculator. For more details, visit our USDA page.

It doesn’t appear that food halls in Chicago will be able to open any time soon. With all Illinois restaurant dining rooms closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the … Read More