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Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, top new Iowa poll of farmers worried about national security, terrorism, renewable fuels.

Twenty-two states and 92 members of Congress P all but one a Republican -- want the Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision upholding the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), an EPA-approved plan to reduce nonpoint source pollution flow

USDA`s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is reaching out to U.S. beekeepers and farmers from now through January to gather information on the number and health of honey bee colonies, honey production and stocks, and the cost to farmers of pollination servi

USDA today announced a dramatic increase in ethanol exports to China this year, following a USDA-led trade mission to the Asian nation in 2014.

A USDA senior research entomologist can proceed with a whistleblower complaint alleging he was punished for publishing research that found neonicotinoid insecticides harm pollinators such as bees and monarch butterflies.

Deportations of illegal immigrants fell sharply in fiscal 2015 in line with the Obama administrationPs shift in enforcement priorities away from targeting U.S. employers.

USDAPs new poultry inspection rules, which place more responsibility for examining birds on the processing establishments themselves, have survived their first court challenge.

The U.S. hog and pig inventory stood at 63.8 million head as of Dec. 1, USDA said today in a report. ThatPs the highest number since quarterly estimates began in 1988.

Five prominent farm groups are asking EPA to withdraw its request to a federal court to vacate the registration of Enlist Duo, a widely used Dow herbicide.

Countries that are members of the World Trade Organization have agreed to end export subsidies for agriculture and set rules for credit assistance and food aid. But the agreement announced at the end of the latest Doha Round talks in Nairobi, Kenya, would allow developing countries suc