In an AgWeb op-ed, Wendy Johnson argues the next farm bill should reward soil health, crop diversity, and farmer-owned land instead of locking producers into corn, soy, and synthetic inputs.
Joel Salatin argues that farmers who champion states’ rights and limited government should think twice before backing a federal bill that overrides state food standards.
Bipartisan vote removes controversial protections for pesticide makers, exposing deeper rifts over federal authority, health standards, and corporate liability.
From livestock phase-outs to solar land grabs, the pressures that drove Europe’s farmer protests point to a deeper restructuring of agriculture.
An opinion piece in Deseret Magazine argues that America is losing small family farms at a rapid pace as consolidation, rising costs, and subsidy structures increasingly favor large agribusiness over independent producers.
Farm Action argues that billions in government food purchases should be redirected toward independent and regional producers.
Trump’s use of the Defense Production Act to boost glyphosate production reframes a lawsuit-plagued chemical as essential to national security while Bayer faces billions in legal risk.
New draft legislation is drawing criticism for preserving corporate advantages in agriculture while weakening state-level protections and shielding pesticide makers from liability.
A federal judge overturned an endangered-species designation imposed on private land with no evidence to support it — but most landowners don’t have the resources to fight back.
One of the South’s most successful growers has slashed nearly half his farmland, warning that fertilizer, fuel, and equipment prices have made large-scale farming financially impossible — and that thousands of acres across the region may sit empty next spring as farmers walk away.