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AgribusinessHouse Agriculture Committee chairman Glenn Thompson told reporters at World Dairy Expo that the Senate's bill matches the House on 11 of 12 titles, and that diesel costs and a legal, year-round workforce dominate dairy farmers' concerns.
EnvironmentMinnesota's October Weed of the Month is autumn olive, a restricted noxious shrub whose single plant can bear about 60,000 fruits a year and which raises soil nitrogen, crowding out prairie species.
LivestockDairy farmers can choose coverage from $4.00 to $9.50 per hundredweight; the programme, reauthorised through 2031, now covers six million pounds at Tier 1 and offers multi-year contracts at a 25 percent premium discount.
Daily lifeA US Postal Service plan that sends trucks from distant post offices less often adds a day to many rural parcels, an Inspector General report finds, and will eventually reach 72% of ZIP codes in the lower 48 states.
LivestockThe state agriculture department will award $25,000 of federal money, reimbursing 80% of approved prevention costs for producers in the wolf range.
AgrotechFarmers Business Network will get early access to Google frontier models to build a system that tailors AI advice to each farm's soil, crops, weather, equipment and finances.
AgribusinessMato Grosso land reached $11,145 an acre in 2022 before falling to $9,066 in 2025, while Iowa land rose to $11,549, leaving Iowa 27% higher.
Market ManagementAn updated Texas Tech University report on foreign sugar subsidies covers 29 countries producing more than 86 percent of the world's sugar and finds nearly all protect or subsidise their sugar sectors.
AgribusinessPOET supplied corn-based bioethanol for the first 100 percent bioethanol bunkering of a vessel in the United States, a Maersk trial in Houston that opens a possible marine-fuel market for US farm products.
HealthFarm Dog, a nonprofit launched on 8 September, wants to remove cost and stigma from farmers' mental health care by funding professional sessions and pulling agribusinesses' separate efforts into one pathway.
LivestockNorth Dakota Senator John Hoeven told the state's cattle producers that the Senate farm bill carries his provisions to cap prairie dog colonies on federal grazing land and widen livestock disaster payments.
EnvironmentThe Natural Resources Conservation Service will fund partner organisations to restore, steward and assess wetland and floodplain easements on agricultural land, with applications due on 19 November.
CropsInVigor Gold, a canola-quality Brassica juncea hybrid bred for hotter, drier ground, gets a processor as BASF prepares first sales in Montana, North Dakota and Washington.
