Mid-summer is always a good time to watch out for crop pests. As you gear up for the fourth, take a quick pass around the ...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights hosted several witnesses ...

Improving soil health of cropland using livestock and controlling buckbrush are among the topics that will be covered during ...

Cattle markets may be at record highs, but let’s not kid ourselves, now is not the time to get comfortable or complacent. The same problems that have plagued rural America and driven tens of ...

In my work with agricultural families, I’m seeing a growing and difficult reality: many farms and ranches today don’t have a successor within the family. While this absence can simplify parts of ...

LINCOLN, NEB. –The Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation awarded 11 scholarships to students enrolled in the Agricultural Education Teaching Program at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL). “The ...

More than 400 producers and industry representatives from over 20 states gathered in Deadwood, South Dakota, last week for the 2025 R-CALF USA National Convention, with several thousand more ...

The Family Business Estate Tax Coalition and the Tax Aggies Coalition have both sent letters to Senate leaders calling for passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill. The National Cattlemen’s Beef ...

Five House members from California’s San Joaquin Valley led by Rep. Jim Costa, a Democrat, sent Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins a letter on Tuesday urging her to develop and evaluate an H5N1 ...

The Justice Department has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit against the U.S. Court of International Trade’s ruling that President Trump’s tariffs under the ...

South Dakota State University Extension will host public meetings about the emerald ash borer in Watertown and Milbank following the insect’s discovery in those communities. The Watertown meeting is ...

On June 18, 2025, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a bold plan to combat New World screwworm (NWS). This plan calls for innovation to eradicate this pest from Mexico and Central ...