Industry news for agriculture: policy and subsidy program changes, crop insurance rules, export bans and trade restrictions, disease outbreaks in livestock and orchards, recalls, and mergers among input and equipment suppliers. Items give effective dates, eligibility conditions and the regions affected, so a grower can judge exposure quickly.
The $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance program closed enrollment April 17, 2026, per USDA, and state-level tariff relief programs followed — the documented money now offsetting trade-disruption losses.
Gabriela Montoya · July 14, 2026
The EPA finalized the 2026 biomass-based diesel volume obligation at about 5.4 billion gallons, up from 3.35 billion in 2025, per the Iowa Soybean Association — a demand step soybean oil cannot yet fully supply.
Isabel Duarte · June 21, 2026
Beef packing has flipped from too little capacity to too much: with the herd at multi-decade lows, cow slaughter plants run at 55 to 60 percent utilization and packers are reconsidering expansion projects.
Isabel Duarte · May 29, 2026
Barge grain movements rose in 2025 even as the Upper Mississippi lock system awaited its first new chamber in decades, and USDA projects diverging corn and soybean export paths for 2025/26.
Gabriela Montoya · May 6, 2026
The documented deals and antitrust conditions that concentrated the commercial seed industry, and what that structure means for seed buying, as of April 2026.
Isabel Duarte · April 14, 2026