A healthy appetite for alfalfa hay in the Middle East helped boost U.S. exports in January, according to latest estimates from USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Service.

California Dairies Inc. (CDI), the largest member-owned milk marketing and processing cooperative in the state, is looking for new members and milk.

Lower U.S. soybean meal and alfalfa hay prices weren’t enough to offset lower January 2016 milk prices, squeezing dairy producers’ income under USDA’s Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) formula. 

It'll take months or longer to determine the full physical and financial impact Winter Storm Goliath had on Texas and New Mexico dairy herds, but the numbers are starting to show.

With economies of scale driving profitability, the trend toward larger but fewer U.S. dairy herds isn’t going away soon, according to a new report from the Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory group.

As a cash crop, all dry hay ranked as the third-highest valued U.S. crop in 2015, according to USDA’s annual crop values report, released Feb. 24, 2016.

Sales volume was down, but lower raw milk prices continued to boost Dean Foods’ income, according to the company’s quarterly investor call held this week.

More college students are majoring in agriculture studies than ever before – outpacing majors like computer science, engineering and public administration, and at higher rates than in the last 15 years. Bachelor’s degree recipients majoring in agriculture grew 39 percent in a five-year period (2008-2013), more than double the rate of bachelor’s degrees as a whole.

Chicago Fed: Farmland values, credit conditions feeling pressure  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago district farmland values were mostly lower ending the fourth quarter of 2015, pressured by lower crop and livestock prices, according to David Oppedahl, business economist, writing the bank’s AgLetter.

Organic forages: 2011 and 2014

Conducted in conjunction with USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), the 2011 and 2014 Organic Surveys targeted all known farms meeting the standards of the National Organic Program (NOP), administered by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).