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After a record-setting 2014, live and feeder cattle prices have taken a tumble in recent weeks with experts pointing to a rebounding supply and heavier cattle going to market.

Advocates for industrial hemp Ð the non-hallucinogenic cousin of marijuana Ð are looking to build on the progress they made with the passage of the 2014 farm bill with new legalization bills now pending in the House and Senate.

Government mandates for labeling food to show its production process are a bad idea because they could mislead consumers and be used to belittle rival products, a panel of experts named by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)

Key congressional Republicans are raising concerns about the just-completed Pacific Rim trade pact, in part because the Obama administration didnPt insist on protecting U.S. tobacco products from regulations in other countries.

Just as U.S. trade negotiators celebrate the completion of one major trade agreement across the Pacific Ocean, talks are scheduled to continue with trading partners across the Atlantic

Amid a power struggle in the House Republican caucus, the White House has started negotiations with congressional leaders on a sweeping budget deal that will be critical to GOP hopes to roll back some of President ObamaPs regulatory agenda.

The United States and 11 other Pacific rim nations announced a landmark trade agreement after a last-minute push by New Zealand to lower U.S. barriers to dairy imports. The deal, reached in a final round of negotiations Atlanta, will allow the Trans-Pacific Pa

The trade ministers from the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations say theyPve reached agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Shirley Sherrod has settled her four-year-old lawsuit against the estate of the late Andrew Breitbart for publishing false allegations that as an administrator at USDA in 2010, the African American woman discriminated against a white farmer.