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Last of the big-city stockyards for sale in Oklahoma City

The Oklahoma National Stock Yards Company was the state’s first major industry when it was built, with financial assistance from Oklahoma City (OKC) founders, alongside a packing plant on 120 acres two miles west of...


Boebert asks energy secretary to halt NIETC in Colorado

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is the first member of the Colorado Congressional delegation to send a letter to newly minted Secretary of Energy — and fellow Coloradoan — Chris Wright asking Secretary Wright to recognize the...





House, Senate GOP bills would move USAID food aid to USDA

Five Republican House members and two senators on Tuesday introduced bills that would move the Food for Peace international food assistance program from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the Agriculture Department. The bills...



Trump nominates Clark, Hutchins at USDA, Quintenz at CFTC

President Trump sent the Senate a long list of nominees today including Tyler Clarkson of Virginia to be general counsel at the Agriculture Department, Scott Hutchins of Indiana to be agriculture undersecretary for research, education...



Trump removes inspectors general, including Fong at USDA

On Friday night, The White House removed the independent inspectors general of nearly every Cabinet-level agency including the Agriculture Department “in an unprecedented purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install...


CoBank CEO: Electricity an issue in rural America

SAN ANTONIO — The electricity demands of new data centers are so great that electricity supply and demand “is one of the biggest issues” facing agriculture and rural America, Thomas Halverson, the president and CEO...


USDA stops payments on climate program

The Trump administration has stopped payments to entities involved in the Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities initiative that was the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s climate change activities at the Agriculture Department, Agri-Pulse has reported. “In a...


Senate confirms Rollins as Ag secretary, 72 to 28

The Senate today confirmed President Trump’s nomination of Brooke Rollins to be agriculture secretary by a vote of 72 to 28.  According to the Senate Daily Press Gallery, the Democratic senators voting in favor of Rollins...


Hester sentenced in cattle shooting

A Larimer County man drove a side-by-side utility vehicle around his rural neighborhood last April, shooting eight head of cattle owned by two different neighbors. Last week, he had his day in court. Michael Hester...