A legal aid group that represents farm workers is suing the state agriculture department claiming it is not sharing the ...

1.9 million farms dot America’s rural landscape, and 95% are operated by families – individuals, family partnerships or family corporations (USDA Census of Agriculture, 2022). Family farms and ranches ...

On one of my flights earlier this year, I sat next to a lady who wanted to have a conversation. She asked me what I do, so I told her I’m president of the American Farm Bureau, the nation’s largest ...

The U.S. Congress passed a continuing resolution in late December that included $10 billion in farm economic assistance to offset low commodity prices and $21 billion in disaster assistance to provide ...

As reported by USDA data and recently highlighted by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), more than three-fourths of household income for farm families comes from off the farm. Per USDA data, ...

Since just after World War II, the number of people employed in agriculture has dropped by half. Most of America's farms are small and nearly all are family-run—but they're also disappearing. In 1935, ...

Following a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for wiping information from its websites on climate-smart farming and other conservation content, the USDA has reversed course and agreed ...

Federated Farmers President, Bruce Wills, has used an opinion piece in yesterday’s Sunday Star Times, to push for facts to come into the debate about farming; facts and information easily obtained ...