Trending

  • Outdoor Farm Show
  • Event Calendar
Farmtario logo
  • Free Newsletter
  • Digital Editions
  • Subscribe
  • Home
  • News
  • Markets
    • Markets
    • Market Desk
  • Crops
    • Crop Management
    • Oil Seeds
      • Canola
      • Soybeans
      • Soybean Production Guide
      • Sunflower
      • Flax
    • Cereals
      • Wheat
      • Barley
      • Oats
      • Corn
      • Corn Production Guide
    • Pulses
      • Soybeans
      • Soybean Production Guide
      • Chickpeas
    • Field Crops
      • Potatoes
      • Potato Guide
    • Seed Treatment Guide
  • Livestock
    • Livestock Management
    • Beef Cattle
    • Calf Central
    • Herd Health
    • Livestock Sales
  • Dairy Plus
  • Machinery
  • AgDealer
  • Classfields
  • Events
    • Farm Event Calendar
    • Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show
    • Canadian Dairy XPO

Trending

  • Outdoor Farm Show
  • Event Calendar
Maple Leaf

Proudly Canadian

  • Home
  • News
  • Markets
    • Markets
    • Market Desk
  • Crops
    • Crop Management
    • Oil Seeds
      • Canola
      • Soybeans
      • Soybean Production Guide
      • Sunflower
      • Flax
    • Cereals
      • Wheat
      • Barley
      • Oats
      • Corn
      • Corn Production Guide
    • Pulses
      • Soybeans
      • Soybean Production Guide
      • Chickpeas
    • Field Crops
      • Potatoes
      • Potato Guide
    • Seed Treatment Guide
  • Livestock
    • Livestock Management
    • Beef Cattle
    • Calf Central
    • Herd Health
    • Livestock Sales
  • Dairy Plus
  • Machinery
  • AgDealer
  • Classfields
  • Events
    • Farm Event Calendar
    • Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show
    • Canadian Dairy XPO
  • Free Newsletter
  • Digital Editions
  • Subscribe
X
Maple Leaf

Proudly Canadian

Leah Douglas


Stories by Leah Douglas

FILE PHOTO: Brooke Rollins, President and CEO of the America First Policy Institute speaks during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, in New York, U.S., October 27, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
News

Trump pick to lead USDA eyes payments to farmers to cover trade losses from tariffs

By Leah Douglas, Reuters January 24, 2025
Brooke Rollins, U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday she would consider direct payments to farmers to offset losses from proposed tariffs, modeled after the approach taken in Trump’s first term.

FILE PHOTO: Brooke Rollins, President and CEO of the America First Policy Institute speaks during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, in New York, U.S., October 27, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
News

Trump’s USDA secretary pick led group opposed to ethanol, farm subsidies

By Leah Douglas, Reuters January 23, 2025
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Agriculture Department, Brooke Rollins, led an organization that opposed ethanol mandates and farm subsidies, major programs she could influence if confirmed, according to a Reuters review of the group's policy statements.


Photo: Getty Images
News

Immigrant US farmworkers prepare for Trump mass deportation plan

By Leah Douglas, Reuters January 17, 2025
Immigrant farmworkers are preparing for incoming U.S. president Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, including by assigning guardians for their children if they are detained, according to groups providing them legal support.

Photo: branex/iStock/Getty Images
Livestock, News

US to build new stockpile of bird flu vaccine for poultry

By Leah Douglas, Reuters January 8, 2025
The U.S. will rebuild its stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matched to the current strain of the virus circulating among commercial flocks and wild birds, the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
News

Louisiana reports first bird flu-related death in US

By Julie Steenhuysen, Leah Douglas, Reuters January 6, 2025
A U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, the Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday, marking the country's first reported human death from the virus.


(Toa55/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock, News

US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply

Virus has infected nearly half of California's 1,100 dairy farms

By Leah Douglas, Reuters December 6, 2024
The U.S. issued a federal order on Friday mandating that the national milk supply be tested for bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters, as authorities seek to grapple with rapid spread of the virus among dairy herds.

Migrant workers clean fields in California’s Salinas Valley on March 30, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
News

US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation

By Leah Douglas, Reuters, Ted Hesson November 25, 2024
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.

File photo of the facade of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building in Washington, D.C. (Camrocker/iStock/Getty Images)
News

Trump expected to offer Loeffler agriculture secretary role

By Doina Chiacu, Jasper Ward, Leah Douglas, Reuters November 22, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to offer former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler the agriculture secretary job in his administration, CNN reported on Friday.


Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File
Livestock, News

US expands bird flu testing after finding symptom-free infections in people

By Deena Beasley, Leah Douglas, Reuters November 8, 2024
Farm workers who have been exposed to animals with bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they do not have symptoms, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

Photo: File
Livestock, News

US to begin bulk milk testing for bird flu after push from industry

By Leah Douglas, Reuters October 31, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon begin testing bulk raw milk across the country for bird flu, a significant expansion of the agency's efforts to stifle the rapid spread of the virus, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters.

← Older articles
Newer articles →

Cyber-Savvy Farmer

Glacier Farmmedia Podcast
flag
Signup to our Newsletter
  • News
  • Markets
  • Crops
  • Livestock
  • Machinery
  • Outdoor Farm Show
  • Dairy XPO
  • Subscriptions
  • Video
  • Digital Editions
  • DairyPlus
  • Advertising
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • AgDealer

Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy | © 2025, Glacier FarmMedia Limited Partnership