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The International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), which made far-reaching contributions to help spur development of the global trading system for food and agricultural products

A requirement that some overseas food aid be carried on U.S.-flagged vessels adds an extra 23 percent to the shipping costs. But there are sharp variations depending on whether the U.S. Agency for International Development or the Agriculture Department

United Fresh, representing the nations farmers, processors, shippers, marketers, food services and others in the fruit and vegetables sector, convened here this week, shortly after a mountain of long anticipated food safety rules began pouring from the Food and Dru

The EPA announced Monday it will prohibit children from handling pesticides and require farm workers to complete pesticide safety training more frequently, bolstering protections for 2 million U.S. farm laborers and their families.

With two days to spare, the House cleared legislation to extend grain inspection standards and livestock price reporting. The House action sends the bipartisan bill (HR 2051) to the White House for President Obamas expected signature. Laws authorizing the standar

Despite the turmoil in the House GOP caucus, Republican congressional leaders are ready to pass a stopgap funding bill this week to avoid a government shutdown when the fiscal year ends Wednesday.

Americans are paying slightly less for a supermarket basket of 16 staples than they did a year ago, thanks in part to lower prices for dairy, bacon and apples and a drop in energy prices, according to the American Farm Bureau Federations annual Fall Harvest Marketbasket Survey.

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) awarded $3.3 million in Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund grants to help restore up to 33,000 acres of key monarch habitat, propagate over a half-billion milkweed and other nectaring seedings, and create 24 full-

House Speaker John Boehner abruptly relinquished his leadership amid a growing rebellion in his caucus, throwing into doubt the prospects for getting a agreement on highway funding and on policy issues critical to agriculture.

China has agreed to improve an approval process for biotech crops that U.S. officials has left a number of new products in limbo. The commitment, outlined in a fact sheet issued by the White House on Friday, didn't include any details of China would do.