Christopher Vondracek

Canada announced it will enact retaliatory tariffs after the Trump administration decided to increase tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods to 50%.

A plan to delay the Nov. 12 hemp products ban could allow lawmakers to overturn it permanently.

The U.S. Senate agriculture committee failed to push the $390 billion bill to the full chamber over a cost-shifting provision that will hurt Minnesota county budgets.

Minnesota farmers face very real challenges. They are hoping this is the year Congress finally passes a bill that addresses a good number of them.

Democrats Peggy Flanagan and Angie Craig sparred with Republicans Michele Tafoya and Royce White a week before the primary election.

Efforts to nullify a California law requiring crating changes have fallen apart in the Senate, shifting debate to the best ways to comply with Proposition 12.

It’s about to open — and supporters say it could revive the region’s economy.

The language, written by Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota and Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, would save a rural housing program that offers rental subsidies to thousands of Minnesotans.

Twenty lawmakers signed letter urging the U.S. Ag Department to get more aggressive in control of the flesh-eating pest, which has not yet reached Minnesota.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture already has taken the hardest hit among federal workforce cuts since Trump took office. Now, it will lose more.