Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is promising farmers that his department will play a key role in enforcing China’s pledges to purchase $80 billion in U.S. agricultural commodities over the next … Read More

Attendees of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Annual Convention paid tribute to Bonnie Duvall, wife of AFBF President Zippy Duvall, who lost her courageous battle with cancer. (FarmWeekNow)

  Farmers enjoy one of the highest levels of public trust of any group or potential source of information. A recent survey at American Farm Bureau found that 88% of … Read More

Assessing the likely impact of climate change has grown as a concern for big companies making strategic decisions about future capital allocation and strategy. But the challenge of forecasting temperatures … Read More

Growers gave Trump a warm welcome at this year’s American Farm Bureau Federation conference here, with members of the traditionally right-leaning group — the industry’s biggest lobbying organization — saying … Read More

Major steps to settle the two-year trade war between the United States and China were taken Jan. 15 and representatives from agriculture groups joined in cautious optimism about Phase 1 … Read More

Illinois farmers will get a much-needed lift from two international trade agreements approved by the federal government last week, but experts are uncertain if their situations will improve in the … Read More

President Donald Trump thanked farmers Sunday for supporting him through a trade war with China as he promoted a new North American trade agreement and a separate one with China … Read More

Did you know that anything using a petroleum-based plastic could be replaced with a renewable bio-based plastic? John Caupert, executive director from NCERC, along with Alexis Hartman, college student and … Read More

Bettie the beagle, a detector dog for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, picked up the scent of pork on a woman arriving from China at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. A … Read More