A bipartisan effort in the U.S. Senate has resulted in the USDA retaining its classification of the humble potato as a vegetable under Dietary Guidelines for Americans. A letter written by Democrat ...

Senators say potatoes could soon have more in common with rice than carrots as they report the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is looking into reclassifying the vegetable as a grain. Democratic ...

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world’s gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following ...

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop ...

USDA’s September Quarterly Grain Stocks report caused major market reaction after USDA raised the soybean stocks number, with one analyst calling the move “unprecedented.” As a result, soybean futures ...

Grain markets moved through another week without one of their most important benchmarks after the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that the Oct. 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand ...

For the remaining bulls in the grain sector, the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture report was a true Christmas gift, with corn, soybeans and wheat rallying higher following its release. Typically, ...

Vince Boddicker with Farmers Trading Company says soybeans are mostly lower seeing some Turnaround Tuesday profit taking and after running into chart resistance. “When you get a big day like that it’s ...

Here are excerpts from one of our recent issues: “… Even though corn and soybean yields dropped slightly due to the dryness in late summer, I preached (last April and May) for another big US crop and ...