Farm Bill

Prospective farm bill plans laid out in both the U.S. House and Senate would see some tweaks to reference prices, potentially allow some farmers to add new base acres and …

Republicans on the Senate Agriculture Committee have proposed putting $4 billion into the national crop insurance program. That means the government would pay a larger share of the policy premiums …

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today introduced the Federal Agriculture Risk Management Enhancement …

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack floated the idea of Congress using the Commodity Credit Corp. (CCC) fund in some “innovative and creative ways” to deal with the “pretty pricey” issue of …

The National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) completed the second part of its 2023 summer Farm Bill fly-ins. The first round of hill visits happened earlier this summer in July. …

Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, on Thursday introduced a bill to limit farm bill payments. The Farm Program Integrity Act would create a hard cap of $250,000 in total …

Total postsecondary enrollment at public and private colleges was down 2.7% in the fall of 2021, coming out of the pandemic. However, the second largest major increase at 4 year …

National Association of Wheat Growers President and Klamath Falls, OR wheat farmer Brent Cheyne, testified in front of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit …

Montana farmers and ranchers joined producers from around the country last week in San Francisco for the 121st Anniversary Convention of National Farmers Union. The convention left Montana Farmers Union …

U.S. Senator Jon Tester held three in-person, public Farm Bill listening sessions in eastern Montana last week to hear directly from ag producers, community leaders, and local officials in preparation …