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Farmers looking to add some high-tech to their operations might be able to do so with a device they already have in their pockets.

Senate critics of farm programs are trying to head off an effort to use the appropriations process to provide new subsidies to cotton producers struggling to deal with depressed global prices. Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.

The European Parliament is recommending that the European Commission, the governing arm of the EU, renew its authorization of glyphosate for seven years and release all data used in a recent assessment of the herbicide by the European Food Safety Authority.

The U.S. isn€t waiting until Congress votes on the Trans-Pacific Partnership to start making sure that the other 11 countries in the free trade deal are ready to begin implementing it if and when it takes effect, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Wednesday&

There�s a hot debate in Florida about what is causing massive fish kills in the Indian River Lagoon on the state�s Atlantic Coast. Some environmental advocates say the algae blooms responsible for the lagoon�s dead zones are being fed by

Food Safety Modernization Act, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Jerry Moran, WOTUS, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Chairman Pat Roberts, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Timothy Massad, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, Oxfarm America

The �waters of the U.S.� rule is in limbo, but its potential impact is causing widespread concern among farmers, Tom Buchanan, president of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, told a Senate subcommittee today.

More than 200 farm groups and food companies came together Monday to deliver a letter to congressional leaders, urging approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

President Obama, Global Food Security Act, Feed the Future, Mike Conaway, Senate Foreign Relations, Eric Munoz, Oxfam, National Cattleman's Beef Association, Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau, Colin Woodall, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Senate

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts released a reauthorization bill for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that would protect grain elevators and other end users from speculative position limits, but the draft tossed some more controversial provisions in a House-passed measure