USDA Expands Efforts to Strengthen Rural Food Animal Veterinary Workforce and Protect America’s Food Supply
(Washington, D.C., August 28, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced a commitment to new actions (PDF, 1.2 MB) to increase the number of rural food animal veterinarians across the U.S. and recruit new veterinarians to
Dairy Heifer Inventories to Shrink Further Before Rebounding in 2027
DENVER (August 28, 2025)—The U.S. dairy industry is facing a potential shortage of its most important resource – milk cows. The number of replacement heifers available to enter the dairy herd as milk producing cows has already
Soybean Growers Want Trade Relief as China Is Not Buying U.S. Beans
(DECATUR, IL) — The world’s top soybean importer, China, doesn’t seem to have bought a single American cargo ship’s worth of soybeans for the coming marketing year (which starts September 1st). And that lack of buying has
NCGA: Corn is Unprofitable at Current Price Levels
The National Corn Growers Association issued a report saying corn prices have dropped about 50 percent since hitting a peak in 2022. However, the cost of production has declined only modestly, making the production of corn unprofitable.