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The Ohio Department of Agriculture is urging citizens not to plant unsolicited seeds they receive in the mail

Sonny Perdue says he expects "85-90% production in probably a very few days or weeks." He also says the government is stepping up efforts to buy food from farmers and distribute it to families.

The pending federal rule changes could push a million kids off free or reduced-price school meals, at least temporarily.

Farmers got more than $22 billion in government payments in 2019 — and most of the money came through a program that Congress never approved. It's the highest level of farm subsidies in 14 years.

The USDA has issued additional money to farmers around the country who weren’t able to plant anything this spring. After Ohio suffered its worst weather…

The proposed licensing fees and planting minimums for hemp production in Ohio could create cost barriers that exclude smaller growers, farmers and…

Activists delivered a petition with 1.5 million signatures to the agency in an effort to stop a rule change that would end automatic enrollment in free school lunch for nearly 1 million kids.

Under new federal rules, pork companies can hire workers to do some tasks currently reserved for federal inspectors in hog slaughterhouses. Critics say it's a move toward privatization.

Across the nation, farmers were kept from planting almost 10 times as many acres this year as they were in 2018. The USDA released figures earlier this…

Ohio farmers are grappling with the worst weather-related planting season on record, with more than one in seven acres covered by the federal crop…