Congressman Brad Finstad received his House committee assignments on Thursday for the remainder of the 117th Congress. He will serve on the Committee on Agriculture, as well as the Committee on Education & Labor. “I am excited to get to work for Minnesota’s 1st District, serving on ...

During a recent listening session on competition in the seek industry, American Soybean Association Presient Brad Doyle said growers support steps to enable greater market participation and innovation in the seed industry. “New technologies, such as gene editing, will enable greater grower ...

Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) led a bipartisan letter last week urging the FCC to stay and reconsider the Ligado Order, echoing concerns of 14 federal agencies and other end users, including U.S. farmers who rely on GPS to operate. The FCC order went into effect April 2020 ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service today awarded more than $1.3 million in Fiscal Year 2022 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program funding to Minnesota. This USDA grant will help the Minnesota Department of Agriculture fund projects that ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia's invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S. farmers could do to meet the new demand. But that may ...

ST. PAUL — More funding for the state’s Farm to School program will provide fair food prices for growers, and will connect farmers to more consumers, said Gary Wertish, president of the Minnesota Farmers Union. “Minnesota’s Farm to School program provides a venue for family farmers to ...