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House Speaker Paul Ryan is making it clear that he won�t take up a broad immigration reform bill while President Obama is still in office. �If we try to move in a comprehensive way with a president who�s proven that he wants to go it alo

Grain traders are worried that the Obama administrations review of U.S. biotech regulations is failing to take into account the need to coordinate the rules with Japan, South Korea and other key trading partners.

- A task force of land-grant academics and representatives from veterinary schools has released a report outlining a national strategy for reducing the role antibiotics used in food-animal production systems play in the broader antimicrobial resistance problem.

Although the last detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the U.S. was almost five months ago, USDA officials remain on watch for a potential winter wave of the deadly bird virus.

Top executives of some of the leading food and agricultural businesses in the United States have teamed up with the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in a bid to reframe the debate about sustainable agriculture in a changing climate.

In the 35-year period following World War II, intensive farming in the Midwest increased nitrate levels in rivers in the region by up to 500 percent, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study.

A new Rabobank study says that improvement in the global pork trade heading into the new year will be gradual, but evident as countries recover from a clear mismatch between supply and demand across the globe.

Multistate outbreaks account for more than half of the deaths from foodborne illnesses though they account for just 3 percent of the total outbreaks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced loans and grants totaling $314 million for 141 projects to build and improve water and wastewater infrastructure in rural communities.

Senate Democrats blocked a bill aimed at forcing the Obama administration to replace its Clean Water Act rule, but Republicans quickly advanced a disapproval resolution that would simply kill the rule.