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The U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington D.C. (Photo by Malachi Witt via Pixabay.)
Loos Tales, Opinion

Stop the rooster from taking credit

Trent Loos weighs in on President Trump’s recent beef industry comments and the federal government’s efforts to address processing capacity. Read More

Cindy and Ken DeVan. (Courtesy photo.)
America 250, Central Region, Dave Bergmeier, Editors, Kansas, Midwestern Region, Missouri, Nebraska

Rural America steps up when country needs it

Sara Wyant
Agripulse, Columns, Columns, Opinion

What if we had a strategic plan for growing U.S. agriculture’s profitability?

World Food Prize Foundation

Vilsack named CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation

  • February 14, 2025
  • By hpj-editorial
A corn crop from northeast Iowa. (Courtesy photo.)

USDA biofuel guidelines, GREET model welcomed

  • February 1, 2025
  • By HPJ staff
USDA Supervisory Agricultural Commodity Graders (Meat) correlate on beef at their annual national beef correlation event, August 13, 2019. (USDA Photo by Preston Keres)

Vilsack announces regulatory reforms under PSA

  • January 26, 2025
  • By HPJ staff
K-State veterinary toxicologist Steve Ensley says lactating animals have a higher chance of becoming water deprived, given their additional fluid needs for milk production. (Photo: K-State Research and Extension news service)

USDA order to test milk to address H5N1 in dairy herds

  • December 6, 2024
  • By HPJ staff
Farmland

Iowa firm receives $4.67 million grant to expand fertilizer production

  • September 8, 2024
  • By hpj-editorial
Sara Wyant

Foreign farmland ownership remains hot political topic

  • September 6, 2024
  • By Sara Wyant
The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Farm state senators urge Vilsack to improve drought response

  • August 30, 2024
  • By hpj-editorial
Frozen turkeys at a grocery story (Photo: USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service)

High Plains region recipient of USDA meat processing grants

  • July 19, 2024
  • By dave-bergmeier
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