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AgribusinessThe eight projects add up to more than $1.34 billion of proposed investment in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur fertilizer, and USDA estimates they could cut nitrogen prices by 4.4% and potash by 5.3%.
LivestockFrom 26 October the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service will publish an extra regional cash cattle report pooling Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, as negotiated cash trade has fallen below 18 percent of purchases.
AgribusinessThe Harvest Fuel Relief program will make one-time payments to US farmers to cover part of modeled 2026 losses from market disruptions and higher input costs, with rates for Title I crops due in November.
AgribusinessUnder its Great American Cotton Plan, USDA will let growers buy multiple crop-insurance endorsements from 2027, and its Foreign Agricultural Service will verify US cotton purchases by Bangladesh, Indonesia, Cambodia and Malaysia in exchange for tariff preferences on their apparel.
AgribusinessUSDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is funding about 609 state projects in 56 states and territories through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, for fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture and nursery crops.
LivestockAgriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins urged states to review their wolf management policies and work with USDA on predation, including lethal removal where state or federal wildlife authorities request it and the law allows.
CropsAs Hurricane Isaias approaches, USDA reminded farmers, ranchers and residents in its path of the disaster programmes on offer and the deadlines for reporting crop damage.
LivestockUS Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has written to every rancher with a grazing permit on Forest Service allotments, urging them to use a June directive that aims to restore 500,000 head months of grazing.
AgribusinessThe US Department of Agriculture is paying about $1.8 billion in 2026 Conservation Reserve Program rent to farmers and landowners, with grazing land now a growing share of the acres enrolled.
CropsUSDA's Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programmes will pay about $13.8 billion in gross payments for the 2025 crop year, the most since they began under the 2014 Farm Bill, after higher reference prices took effect.
CropsThe Seed Sovereignty Initiative will sequence collections in the National Plant Germplasm System, which holds more than 600,000 accessions of over 16,000 species, and use AI to find useful traits.
AgribusinessA final rule with comment period for the Rural Energy for America Program simplifies applications for farmers and rural small businesses, limits oversized solar on productive farmland and bars components from foreign adversaries.
CropsThe US Department of Agriculture is raising assistance under its Regenerative Pilot Program from $700 million to $1 billion in fiscal 2027 and making it easier for farmers to qualify.
