Tim Hearden

Farm Progress America: Major funding boost aims to expand overseas markets for American farmers and ranchers while strengthening trade relationships ahead of larger investments.

E15 sales, farm bill progress, cab filter needs, ag in Nebraska, smartphone mounts and ag tech are featured this week.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is establishing new regional hubs outside Washington, D.C., and relocating thousands of employees across the country.

More than seven years after the Camp Fire ripped through the Paradise area in Butte County, burning 153,336 acres and killing 85 people, emotion

(Photos #1 and #2 from Vicky Boyd)

The far-flung, dogleg-shaped district – which stretches to Modoc County in California's northeast corner – is a microcosm of scenarios emerging across the country on both sides of the political spectrum, as rural areas are paired with more urban ones to dilute one or the other party's votes.

While industry leaders continue to urge both governments to get to the negotiating table, they've also embraced legislation introduced July 6 by Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., that could lead to increased tariffs on Canadian goods if provincial restrictions against American alcoholic beverages aren't lifted.

Farm and business groups in California say a state bill that would raise the minimum wage for certain agricultural workers by nearly $3 an hour would lead to business closures, […]

A bipartisan group of California legislators is frantically working to save the state's goat-grazing industry from sudden collapse because of a regulatory shift that quadrupled the minimum wage for goat herders on July 1, raising it to as much as $240,000 a year.

More California farms and ranches are incorporating small-scale overnight camping into their operations, and both their goals and stages of development cross a wide spectrum.