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A bankruptcy filing by a leading hemp processor strikes a “gut punch" to the fledgling industry as it tries to secure a foothold in Kentucky, the state's agriculture commissioner said Thursday.

Two former officers at a northwest Iowa agriculture cooperative have pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a new North American trade agreement Thursday that rewrites the rules of trade with Canada and Mexico.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said comments on the proposed rules will be accepted until Jan. 22.

One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thursday on a  renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.

Federal data shows more women are operating farms in Idaho, but officials say they have always been there.

The sea of shifting soybean kernels had risen to Jay Butterfield's knees inside a tall grain bin on his Ohio farm.

President Donald Trump has once again turned to tariffs to try to get his way with a U.S. trading partner.

EPA says it has surveyed Superfund sites in flooded areas of Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.

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Iowa hog farmer Howard Hill is feeling the pinch from President Donald Trump's get-tough trade policies — his pigs are selling for less than it costs to raise them.

Statistics show the nation's farmers are struggling to pay back their loans after years of low crop prices _ with nearly one out of every five loans in a government farm program now delinquent.

President Donald Trump says he will extend a deadline to escalate tariffs on Chinese imports, citing "substantial progress" in weekend talks between the two countries.

Calls to the Wisconsin Farm Center, which helps distressed farmers, were up last year, including a 33 percent increase in November and December compared to the same two months the previous year.

Four Montana ranches owned by billionaire Texas brothers Dan and Farris Wilks are being offered for sale.

J.R. Simplot Company on Monday announced a licensing agreement with DowDuPont Inc., MIT & Harvard, developers of the nascent gene editing technology. Simplot is the first agricultural company to receive such a license.

President Donald Trump says he has accepted the resignation of scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.