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A group of northwest Texas farmers is working to do more with less with water from the Ogallala Aquifer and hopeful that their efforts - through the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation - will slow the draw from the 225,000 square-mile underground water body.

The Obama Administration used its @Champions of Change@ program to honor a dozen farmers, ranchers and other agricultural experts for practicing or promoting sustainable and climate-smart agriculture

If the right energy policy choices are made, the Department of Energy forecasts that wind power's current 4.5 percent of the nation's end-use demand could surge to 10 percent by 2020, 20 percent by 2030 and 35 percent by 2050

House and Senate Democrats met on Capitol Hill Tuesday to solicit the help of child nutrition advocates and congressional staffers in their push to reauthorize the Obama administration@s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HFKA) @ that lapsed last month @ and the healthy sch

Crop insurance was targeted for a cut in a sweeping budget deal that the White House and congressional Republican leaders were finishing negotiations on Monday night.

House Republican leaders are scrambling this week to avert a snarl in rail traffic - and a crisis over the federal debt limit - even as Paul Ryan prepares to take over as speaker and try to unite the fractious GOP caucus.

The White House honored 12  Champions of Change  in sustainable agriculture Monday for using and promoting management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve environmental conditions and grow local economies.

As expected, a World Health Organization body on cancer research has labeled red and processed meat consumption as potentially leading to colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancers.

USDA s Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) is conducting a  thorough administrative review  of issues involving the American Egg Board following reports that Chief Executive Officer Joanne Ivy tried to persuade Whole Foods

This isn t a perfect program, but it does offer opportunities to maintain farmland and forestland through conservation easements