Farmers can elect and enrol in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programmes for 2026 from 16 September to 11 December, after USDA's first base-acre expansion in 20 years added more than 30 million acres.
The Senate Agriculture Committee has sent the Agricultural Act of 2026 to the full Senate on a 12-11 vote, and feed, soybean, corn, dairy, pork, sorghum, cattle, fertiliser and specialty-crop groups have lined up to back it while pressing their own priorities.
With drought cutting North Dakota hay crops to half of normal, NDSU Extension says producers tempted to take a late alfalfa cut should wait for a killing frost and graze the regrowth instead, or risk losing the stand.
Governor Abigail Spanberger has declared a state of emergency granting over-width waivers for hay transport, after drought cut Virginia's hay yields by 35 percent and left the state short by about 500,000 tons going into winter.
Teff Co., which contracts about 6,500 acres across Idaho, Washington, Nevada, California and Arizona, reports average quality, stable contract prices and 19 growers this year, two sat out for lack of irrigation water, as the Ethiopian grain's harvest finishes on schedule.
Six percent of the US soybean crop was harvested by 13 September, double the five-year average, with Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas well ahead and yields reported as strong across the South.
The Republican-controlled committee cleared the bill on party lines on 17 September; farm groups welcomed the step and pressed for speed, while pork producers want a national answer to California's Proposition 12 and the Meat Institute is fighting an amendment to bring back country-of-origin labelli
LivestockUSDA has ordered the dairy checkoff to stop funding environmental, social and governance initiatives and told the Agricultural Marketing Service to apply the same rule to every other commodity checkoff.
Farm tractor sales in the United States fell 8% year on year in August to 14,571 units and self-propelled combine sales dropped 4%, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers reported, with Canadian combine sales down more than 40%.
A MoneyGeek analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data counts 175 farmers, ranchers and agricultural managers killed at work in 2024 and 147 other agricultural workers, with transport incidents the leading cause; the fatality rate is nearly six times the national average.
November soybean futures have gained nearly $1.50 since mid-August, and market adviser Naomi Blohm says the next move hangs on Xi Jinping's US visit, Brazil's planting weather, record fund positions and the 30 September quarterly stocks report.
The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium's 2026 awards fund university and government teams in the United States, Canada, Denmark and Israel to test enhanced-efficiency fertilisers, biofertilisers, placement and cover crops across corn, soybean, cotton, irrigated and dryland systems under common field-tr
On-highway diesel hit $6.285 a gallon on 14 September and farm diesel $5.45 on 4 September, up from $3.02; AFBF's Faith Parum ties it to the Strait of Hormuz closure, Red Sea attacks and Russian refining losses, with US distillate stocks down 14% since January and fuel costs forecast at $22 billion
