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.
LivestockThe new welfare standards, part of a national plan to phase out conventional cages by 2036, now start in mid-2027, while caged-egg farmers vow to fight the phase-out.
CropsAPHIS is taking comments until 20 November on Bayer Crop Science's petition to deregulate a cotton variety that resists six moth-family pests.
LivestockEarly results from a three-year University of Nebraska project show pregnancies up almost 11% in heifers bred with fresh semen pooled from three bulls.
Kansas State models show group treatment for respiratory disease did not pay in 72% of groups, and Texas Tech links liver abscesses to rumen health, not genetics.
EnvironmentPile fields, fenced banks and effluent reuse on farms now keep an estimated 27,000 tonnes of fine sediment a year from reaching the southern Great Barrier Reef.
CropsHagen Hunt, president of the Texas Corn Producers Association, says this year's drought in the northwest of the state is worse than 2011, while diesel and input costs rule out breaking even.
The Advancing Markets for Producers money from NRCS will go out as direct grants of $20,000 to $300,000 to help growers sell crops raised with soil-health practices.
CropsWashington State University researchers say most of this year's low falling number wheat showed no alpha-amylase activity, raising doubts about whether it should be penalised.
LivestockFed-cattle slaughter fell nearly 16% on Thursday as ICE operations in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal kept packing-plant workers away, cattle groups say.
FruitsUSDA's September fruit outlook also sees apples down 6% and winegrapes lower, while cranberries rise 5%.
OrganicThe grain trader's fourth annual report says its 2025 programmes across 11 countries and 10 crops cut about 946,000 tonnes of CO2e against regional benchmarks.
OrganicSolidaridad says 50 to 60 Indian tea gardens, 10 in the south, have joined, and that cotton farmers in Maharashtra under the scheme saw yields rise 10–20%.
