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When President Trump sent his Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposal to Congress on May 23, 2017, folks on Capitol Hill pretty much declared it dead on arrival.

Despite low unemployment rates, many Americans are still struggling to rebound from the Great Recession of 2008, and they continue to face far too many barriers to economic success.

I read with interest last month’s Washington Post article about shipments of corn and soybeans from Turkey that arrived in the United States labeled organic, but that clearly were not.

USDA and FDA proposals to regulate genetically engineered (GE) plants and animals following the recent update of the regulatory framework are on their websites awaiting public comment by 19 June 2017.

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 - A key to success is to surround yourself with the good people.

A few years ago, a huge shift occurred in global leadership when China overtook the United States in public agricultural R&D.

At a time when the new administration is proposing substantial cuts to federal funding for working lands ...it is more important than ever that we do not lose sight of this core fact: voluntary conservation works.

The highest unemployment rates in the country are on the Indian Reservations of the Missouri River Valley where unemployment averages 80%.

In the coming decades, a rapidly expanding world population will increasingly strain the global food system.

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field,” President Dwight Eisenhower said in 1956.