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An influential hog dealer sanctioned twice for defrauding pork producers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars says it has fired employees responsible for its latest violations and paid restitution to affected sellers.

The total increase in food stamp payments will be $3.5 billion. That boost in SNAP benefits is financed from the recently approved pandemic relief package.

A years-long bipartisan effort to improve competition in agriculture could benefit from the new administration.

The USDA is projecting higher incomes across farm businesses this year, mostly because of federal relief payments.

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture traveled to Iowa to celebrate a new program that awards grants so retailers can sell higher blends of biofuels.

Farmers who grow many different types of crops and raise livestock will receive direct payments from the United States Department of Agriculture through…

After the day’s meals are done on a recent Tuesday, Gilbert Community Schools director of food service Deb Purcell shuffles through a stack of papers.…

Farmers and landowners enrolling acres in the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program have a new practice available to them.Areas of…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed three changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) this year. They affect the…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is laying out its plan for hemp production, 10 months after the 2018 farm bill paved the way for farmers to grow it.…