Noah Wicks

A Wisconsin poultry grower who contracted with Pure Prairie Poultry tells Agri-Pulse to expect lawsuits to be filed today over the company’s closure. The shutdown has resulted in roughly 2 million chickens left without fed and growers without a processor able to take them.

With hundreds of new NRCS employees coming onboard, agency officials must now grapple with how to effectively train up and keep on a generation of younger workers while simultaneously rolling out billions of new farm conservation dollars.

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is rapidly staffing up to help farmers with their conservation challenges, and that brings with it the need to train the new employees. However, the agency is finding that many of these new conservationists didn’t grow up on a farm and need help understanding the different types of farming systems they will encounter.

All eyes are on Montana as Republicans try to seize control of the Senate from Democrats in next week’s election, though the scales also could be tipped by a handful of other competitive races.

The hog industry says the U.S. pork supply is safe following detection of H5N1 in a pig from a backyard farm in Oregon, but concerns remain about possible mutations in the virus.

It’s finally here. We finally get election results starting tonight, with control of the White House, Senate and House all very much up in the air. But keep in mind it could be days before we know which party controls the White House and U.S. House, given the time it will take to count votes.

Dry weather has helped speed Midwestern and Southern farmers through most of this fall’s corn and soybean harvest while also limiting the amount of grain they could send down the Mississippi River. As many park their combines for the year, they are hoping rain storms can replenish soils parched and waterways shrunk by months of drought.

The Technical Service Provider program holds potential for helping the Natural Resources Conservation Service meet its growing workload, but actually getting conservation professionals interested in participating can be a challenge.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to overhaul key aspects of the Biden Administration's environmental policy, which could significantly affect the way public and private lands are managed.

The incoming Trump Administration could be consequential for determining the fate of a slate of Biden Administration agricultural competition policies, including its efforts to update rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act.