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“Sustainability” was one of the most talked about topics at the recent Fruit Logistica 2023, held Feb. 8-10 at Messe Berlin.

If the nation’s debt hits $31.4 trillion—it’s on track to do so by this Thurs.—the Treasury will need to take “extraordinary measures” to help pay the government's operations and ward off a historic default.

Despite pressure from Congress and from stakeholders in U.S. agriculture, the Biden administration has refused calls to include tariff reduction in its major trade initiative, says Adam Hollowell of Bryant Christie Inc.

While U.S. agriculture isn’t facing an existential threat, the same cannot be said for farmers abroad, particularly in the developing world.

When farmers or ranchers in the U.S. face tragedy others in the industry are quick to help. That same mentality, of farmers helping farmers, has reached Ukraine as support rolls in from across the globe.

AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben talks with Toni Lynn Adams, Communications Outreach Coordinator with the Washington Apple Commission about dropping exports to China.

Shipping Costs are Surging Globally, Squeezing Grain Traders

Already hurting from weak milk prices, curbs on movement of labor from other countries could ravage the British dairy industry.

Panama Canal expands, but can U.S. ports keep up? 

If soils in the country's northern region continue to slowly dry out, there could be severe implications for China's agricultural production capabilities and freshwater supplies.

Lester Brown has spent his career making shrewd projections about the food, water, and energy people need to survive, and pushing governments to respond.

The two busiest U.S. seaports are facing their largest backlog of ships in more than a decade, even with hundreds of dock employees returning to work over the weekend after their union reached a tentative labor contract.

West Coast dockworkers and their employers ended their nine-month standoff with a five-year contract deal, averting a shutdown of 29 ports that could have cost the U.S. economy $2 billion a day.

U.S. buyers are sourcing grain from other suppliers as Canadian companies are not confident they will get enough rail cars to deliver on southern rail corridors.

A growing portion of China’s toilet waste is converted into fertilizer and biogas.

Truck drivers in Argentina, the world’s third-largest exporter of corn and soybeans, say theft and extortion are on the rise at the main port, Rosario.

The ripening corn and soybean fields stretch for miles in every direction from Dennis Wentworth’s farm in Downs, Illinois.

The company posted a 12 percent drop in fiscal fourth- quarter profit as its trading and processing business continued to feel the effects of drought in the U.S. and a shortage of railcars.

See how New Zealand dairy producers are adopting sustainable practices.

China’s soil is laced with pollutants including mercury, arsenic and cadmium, a radioactive material, according to a nine-year government survey.

A warming climate along with the development of faster-maturing seed varieties is pushing the Corn Belt north of what was imaginable a generation ago.

Canada’s two major railways will each be required to ship a minimum of 500,000 metric tons of grain each week to clear a crop backlog stuck on the prairies.

Buckle up—here’s what you can expect by 2030.