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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - No single factor is behind the decline in honey bee health, a leading researcher said at presentations in Washington, D.C., Monday, the start of the officially designated National Pollinator Week.
NORTH DAKOTA, June 21, 2017 - In mid-June on the Northern Plains, spring crops have usually rounded first base, the season’s first cutting of hay is being baled or stacked, and cattle are browsing in knee-deep forage.
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - It’s been just over a week since the U.S. and China announced a final agreement to lift the 13-year ban on imports of American beef, and several U.S. packing operations have already been certified by the USDA to begin exporting.
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - Explaining a new focus for U.S. energy policy, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said he and President Trump are going beyond “energy independence” to pursue “energy dominance.”
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2017 – Scientists say they are gaining a new understanding of why corn – or maize as it is widely known outside the U.S. – and not some other plant, is the most productive and widely grown crop in the world, after deciphering a new, much more detailed reference genome for the plant.
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2017 - President Trump heads to Iowa this week to showcase precision agriculture and its benefits to the rural economy, and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will host his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in Georgia.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2017 - President Trump is nominating Gregg Doud, the president of the Commodity Markets Council, to be the administration’s chief agricultural negotiator under the U.S. Trade Representative.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2017 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today named Jason Hafemeister as his acting Deputy Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agriculture Affairs and two other individuals to key leadership roles as he continues the reorganization plan he announced a month ago.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2017 – New measures unveiled today by the Trump administration to restrict U.S. travel and trade with Cuba met with strong opposition from U.S. farm groups hoping to increase agricultural exports to the island nation.
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