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New York farmers can start submitting applications for up to $25,000 in relief from the state as part of a $30 million aid effort aimed at easing the hit to farmers from Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul said on Monday. Over the last year, Trump has imposed an array of tariffs, including a global 10% tariff and retaliatory tariffs on China, which led Beijing to levy its own tariffs on U.S. soybean exports.

Getting in the fields for soybean harvest is stressful enough, with servicing equipment (and navigating inevitable breakdowns), coordinating drivers and getting beans in the bin amid unpredictable fall weather conditions. Your to-do list is already a mile long, but make sure you don’t skip pre-harvest scouting of soybeans in the field.

When Roy Angermiller was a college student in Alpine, Texas, he worked part‑time riding pastures and checking calves for screwworm‑eaten navels. “We would have to rope them and calm down and doctor the screwworms,” he recalls. “I couldn’t start to tell you how many — it was a lot.” Back then, he says, “everybody had horses and long rope” and “they had the cowboys” to do the work.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order aimed at accelerating regenerative agriculture and strengthening farm resilience. Simultaneously, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the final Regenerative Feedstock Rule.

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A mere month ago, corn and soybeans were off to a strong start. However, heavy rainfall and hail over the past week have changed the landscape in some parts of the Midwest, including central Illinois. As fields there slowly dry out, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie is urging farmers to shift into triage mode to address nutrient deficiencies, rising disease pressure and looming weed problems.

In a 7-2 decision today, The Supreme Court reversed the Missouri Court of Appeals decision in Monsanto V. Durnell, answering the question of whether federal preemption prohibits states from imposing labeling requirements “in addition to or different from those required under” the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA.) It’s the beginning of the end in the U.S. legal saga for Bayer, who acquired Monsanto in 2018.

If you want to spark an immediate family fight at a Wisconsin farmhouse kitchen table, don’t bring up milk prices or the cost of corn. Bring up artificial intelligence. For generations, the primary threats to a dairy farmer’s peace of mind were predictable: market volatility, rising feed costs or a bad run of weather. But today, the conversation has shifted.

The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer BAYGn.DE of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a major legal victory on Thursday to the German company. The justices in a 7-2 decision overturned a jury verdict in Missouri awarding $1.25 million to a man named John Durnell who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked Congress to approve more than $11 billion in additional aid for farmers facing high fuel and fertilizer costs since the Iran war, according to a White House supplemental funding request reviewed by Reuters.