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The most important question in Washington this year is the obvious one: Who will win the presidency on November 6, 2012?

To produce a farm bill next year, I believe that farm, nutrition and conservation groups must coalesce, and Congress must move swiftly.

we failed to pass a 2012 Farm Bill as part of that process. We must pass a farm bill in 2012 because our nation’s farmers and ranchers need and deserve a measure of certainty.

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Surgeon General recommend breastfeeding as the best form of infant nutrition

The Congressional Super-Committee failed to find a spending and tax plan for an additional $1.2 billion in savings over the next ten years.

At this rate of growth, by the middle of the century, the global population will exceed 9 billion

Telling the truth in Washington is known as the “Kinsley gaffe”

NRCS needs to move to use new technology

People are watching the debt stories and saying too bad. They spent too much

Last month, the World Food Prize symposium again focused global attention on what it will take to eliminate hunger a