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Over the years, a proposed solution to water scarcity in the western U.S. has come up again and again: large-scale river diversions, including pumping Mississippi River water to the parched West. The idea continues to brew, but is it politically and logistically feasible?

Markets have nowhere to go but up, as a new USDA report shows the industry starts 2023 with the smallest beef cow herd ever.

Members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday pressed USDA's new undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs about Mexico's push to ban biotech corn and why the Biden administration has not moved to a dispute resolution panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Once again, seven of the eight major fertilizers' prices are lower compared to last month. Five of the eight major fertilizers were significantly lower. DTN designates a substantial move as anything 5% or more.

All cattle and calves in the United States as of Jan. 1, 2023, totaled 89.3 million head, 3% below the 92.1 million head on Jan. 1, 2022, USDA NASS reported on Tuesday.

Governors in half of the states asked the Biden administration on Monday to delay the implementation of the WOTUS rule until after the Supreme Court issues a ruling in the Sackett v EPA case sometime this spring.

Based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, DTN found some surprises in ethanol-blending rates from 2021.

Be aware of the complex rules for depreciating farm business vehicles.

A planned beef packing plant in western Iowa is one of four separate cattle packing plant projects under construction or development stretching from Nebraska to Texas that add up to nearly $2.4 billion in investment. If all are built, they will add as much as 8,900 head per day of additional packing capacity to the cattle industry.

Ukrainian farmers continue to face a range of pressures trying to grow a crop in the midst of the war with Russia.