It's back to the drawing board for USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Officials announced Friday that current plans toward the NAIS are being scrapped and the agency is starting over in building a national system of animal traceback.

2/05/2010, 2:05 PM CST

New technologies and genetic modification will play the key role in feeding the world. This is the view of thousands of farmers from across the globe who gave views on solutions to feeding the world, in a poll led by Farmers Weekly.

2/05/2010, 1:38 PM CST

The Iowa legislature moved a step closer to requiring 5% biodiesel in all diesel sold in the state Thursday when a House Ways and Means subcommittee approved the bill in a 2 to 1 vote.

2/04/2010, 5:40 PM CST

New rules from the EPA on the carbon footprint do not open the door very wide to more ethanol production under the mandates of the 2007 energy bill.

2/04/2010, 5:35 PM CST

Have you got the winter doldrums? Maybe it's time for a road trip. Tag along with Machinery Pete as he travels to southern New Mexico to check out some machinery auctions.

2/04/2010, 11:30 AM CST

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday released its final rule for putting the 2007 energy law into effect. The EPA announcement, timed with a White House push for more energy independence, makes it clear that both corn ethanol and soy-based biodiesel will lower greenhouse gas emissions enough to be in the fuel mix as the nation ramps up to using 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022.

2/03/2010, 5:33 PM CST

Monsanto got the stamp of approval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week to bring a new soybean and cotton post-emergence herbicide to market.

2/02/2010, 10:56 AM CST

The Obama administration found a bit of support across the aisle for part of its USDA budget proposals Tuesday. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, said he wasn't sure he liked a proposal to lower the payment limit on direct payments from $40,000 to $30,000, but he's more inclined to support another idea, lowering eligibility for all farm program payments to individuals with adjusted gross income from farming of $500,000 or less. Currently the AGI cap is $750,000.

2/02/2010, 10:26 AM CST

As goes the general economy, so goes the beef economy. That point was brought home strongly at the Cattle Industry Convention by economists from CattleFax, an industry market analysis firm.

2/01/2010, 1:38 PM CST

BASF and Farm Plan have teamed up to help growers maximize their investment for their 2010 purchases, according to a company report.

2/01/2010, 1:21 PM CST