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Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts is trying to reach a sweeping agreement on child nutri-tion programs in time to move a reauthorization bill this week.

U.S. and Chinese officials will sign a phytosanitary agreement next week that will allow U.S. rice exporters to ship the grain into the worldàs most populous country, US Rice Producers Association (USRPA) said in a news release.

USDA and the Department of Defense (DOD) announced a partnership Monday that would add agriculture to the career training and counseling provided to the 200,000 service members leaving the military and returning to civilian life every year.

A U.S. federal district court judge on Friday dismissed a number of the legal claims filed against Syngenta regarding U.S. sales of Viptera, but will allow some challenges to be potentially amended and others to go forward.

The U.S. 9th Circuit of Appeals vacated the EPA�s approval of the pesticide sulfoxaflor, concluding that the agency violated federal law when it approved the registration without additional studies regarding potential impact on honeybees.

The Food and Drug Administration today released a draft guidance document to help chain restaurants and similar retail food establishments with 20 or more locations comply with a new rule that requires calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards.

Farm groups and biotech companies want the White House to press China harder to accelerate its approval of new genetically engineered crops. Industry groups have sent a pair of letters to President Obama to make the issue a priority during the upcoming visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping

USDA on Friday trimmed its yield and production estimates for the U.S. corn crop, which is still expected to be the third-biggest on record.

Officials in the U.S. pork industry expect the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will mean greater access for their products to the Japanese market, but they say it may be years before exporters feel big results.

Twenty-one states will receive grants aimed at doubling the number of pumps offering higher blends of ethanol at gas stations, USDA said today in a release.