The U.S. House approved, 224-200, a five-year farm bill Thursday as members of Congress attempt to update major agriculture and nutrition policy after three years of extensions. The bill would authorize subsidy and nutrition assistance…

Late 2025 marked the most severe three-month stretch in more than a decade for the gap between what agriculture producers pay to operate and what they receive in return, according to an analysis of USDA…

TOPEKA — The House agriculture committee endorsed a bill on pesticide warning labels that was alternatively described as commonsense regulatory relief for farmers and a measure shielding chemical manufacturers from liability in lawsuits. Before advancing…

The Trump Administration’s push to deport millions of people living in the U.S. without legal status is about to surge. Washington will pump an extra $170 billion into Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and the…

YATES CENTER — The Arthur Capper Cooperative Center (ACCC) in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University recently recognized Aidan Yoho of Yates Center, as a 2025-2026 Otis and Mary Lee Molz Cooperative…

This week began with a glimpse into how the gritty details of protectionist trade policy get hashed out — and it wasn’t pretty. America’s farmers find themselves in an increasingly untenable situation, as their imports…

When I was growing up, my grandfather often told me: “The best thing about being a farmer is that you are your own boss.” When I asked what’s the worst thing, he would chuckle and…

The Trump administration’s goal to expel millions of immigrants laboring in the food system will likely increase the foreign workforce in the U.S., experts said Thursday. The administration has said it wants U.S.-born workers to…

There is no shortage of reasons to protect farmworkers.  Our agriculture industry, responsible for food production and by extension food prices, relies on a myriad of factors, including a stable labor source. Farmworkers are not…

OVERLAND PARK — Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman pushed for deepening relationships and maintaining international growth opportunities for Kansas farmers at a meeting of state political and agricultural leaders Wednesday. Glickman and U.S.…