USDA announced over the weekend that there will be no SNAP benefits starting Nov. 1 due to the ongoing federal shutdown.

Democrats are launching an agriculture-centered opening argument ahead of the midterm campaign season, slamming Trump’s tariffs for hurting soybean producers and other farmers that have traditionally backed the president.

Six months after the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and weeks from the Nov. 10 White House cutoff for a trade pact between the two countries, U.S. soybean farmers are learning that China — long the predominant market for their product — doesn’t need them anymore.

Farmers' urgent need for labor is highlighted by stories like those of a multigenerational dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers and another where a farmer’s job listings have received no responses.

House Ag Chair G.T. Thompson (R-Pa.) has said he hopes to advance a farm bill out of committee by the end of September.