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The crop insurance program may have dodged a bullet in the new budget agreement, but more shots may be coming, starting as soon as next year.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., appear to be the favorites of farmers, ranchers and agribusiness executives who are contributing to the 2016 presidential campaigns or political action committees supporting them.

Farmers and other landowners are invited to USDA`s 46th general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program, to run from Dec. 1 to Feb. 26.

Sugar growers had a lot to lose in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but they say they`re pleased with the outcome. `We have carefully examined the final language and details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and are pleased to confirm that America`s trade negotiators deliv

The fiscal 2016 omnibus spending bill that lawmakers are now negotiating could include a bigger increase for FDA to enforce new food-safety regulations than appropriators had originally proposed.

Despite some last-minute red tape requirements, a top official with the U.S. rice industry said China could begin accepting shipments of U.S. rice within a matter of months.

Kika de la Garza, the Texas Democrat who ran the House Agriculture Committee from 1981 to 1994, used to tell a story about a submarine to connect what might have seemed like disparate issues ` agriculture and national security.

- A panel of government officials and environmentalists agreed during a Farm Foundation Forum discussion Tuesday that the Endangered Species Act can be a valuable tool for species recovery, but voluntary and cooperative conservation initiatives ` that engage farmers and ranchers in par

This year`s soybean crop will be the biggest ever ` and bigger than projected a month ago ` and the corn crop is also projected larger than in October, according to the latest USDA forecasts.

Small farms and processors across the country as well as some major agricultural cooperatives have been awarded Agriculture Department grants to expand or start new businesses. Some 258 businesses will benefit from the 2015 round of awards from the Value-Added Producer Grants