DEERE & Co. reported that its third-quarter 2015 net income tumbled 40% to $511.6 million, compared to $850.7 million for the same period last year (Table). Weak demand, lower shipment volumes and foreign currency exchange rates were unfavorable...

THE Institute for Feed Education & Research (IFEEDER), the nonprofit foundation of the American Feed Industry Assn., announced the selection of a recipient for its first research grant chosen through a competitive process to help further education...

THE MetaFarms Production Index for the second quarter of 2015 shows higher mortality and lower sale weights in finishing and wean-to-finish hog groups...

BARLEY, a widely grown cereal grain commonly used to make beer and other alcoholic beverages, possesses a large and highly repetitive genome that is difficult to fully sequence, but a team led by scientists at the University of California...

FIRST impressions make a difference when the goal is winning a new customer, moving up the career ladder, gaining acceptance to a group or, of course, attracting a new special friend...

THE owners of United Suppliers Inc. and members of Land O'Lakes Inc. have overwhelmingly approved the merger of United Suppliers with the Land O'Lakes crop inputs business...

Smithfield expanding sausage facility: Smithfield Foods broke ground Aug. 19 to expand its existing facility in Cudahy, Wis. — which produces the company's Patrick Cudahy and other brands — by 12,500 sq. ft., adding four new smokehouses and two...

THE presidential election may be more than a year away, but candidates are beginning to roll out their ideas for improving rural America...

THE Food & Drug Administration is getting significant industry pushback on its proposed rule for monitoring antibiotics used in agriculture...

THE World Trade Organization will hold a meeting next month to consider the retaliatory tariffs Canada and Mexico are proposing against the U.S. for its country-of-origin-labeling (COOL) policy...