USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey says the chances of an El Niño this summer are growing, but that’s not what brought the recent rains. If anything, this appears to be a storm that got a bit off track when going through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas and brought up to 3 inches in some areas, he says.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point and signaled it might pause further increases, giving officials time to assess the fallout from bank failures, wait on the resolution of a political standoff over the U.S. debt ceiling and monitor the course of inflation.

Options to provide more funding for the farm bill include clawing back some of the unspent COVID-19 relief funding and restrictions on use of Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act funding.

Three McDonald's franchises are fined for violating child labor laws. What an investigation reportedly found, in today's AgDay Minute.