Farmers and ranchers at the first Essentials of Regenerative Grazing course evaluate forage in a pasture at Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, Oklahoma. (Photo courtesy of Noble Research Institute/Rob Mattson.)

USDA announces June 2024 lending rates for agricultural producers

Aerial view of a Large green Cotton picker working in a field. (Photo: iStock - liorpt)

USDA seeks cotton board nominees

(Photo by OSU Agriculture.)

Planted cotton acres projection: 10.67 million acres

Soybeans (K-State Research & Extension photo.)

WASDE sees more soy exports, crush, supply, competition

The USDA-ARS Experiment Lake Dam in Woodward has been redesigned to include a new spillway design to maintain base flow and limit overflow during a flood. The spillway design is based on standardized guidance developed by ARS scientists at the Agroclimate and Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Hunt, USDA-ARS Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center, Agroclimate and Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit)

Dedication marks modernization of USDA experimental dam

A traveler goes past a wheat field east of Hutchinson, Kansas. (Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier.)

Wheat tour pegs Kansas production at 290.4 million bushels

Zimmerman Meats in Summerville, Missouri. (Photo courtesy of Zimmerman Meats.)

MPPEP grants helping smaller meat processors expand 

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.)

Rain found its way into drought-affected areas