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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote sometime in the next two weeks on a bill to kill the rule re-defining what streams, ditches and wetlands will be regulated under the Clean Water Act as waters of the United States (WOTUS).

With diminishing egg supplies due to the avian influenza outbreak, the U.S. egg market is struggling to fulfill demand from food producers.

Followers of an amorphous food movement eagerly anticipate the coming end of factory farms and modern big food production and processing. But consumers and investors arent getting the foodies message.

Stakeholders from food groups, the healthcare industry, the military and agriculture gathered Tuesday for a White House forum on fighting antibiotic resistance, which the Obama administration said poses a threat to national security.

The clock is ticking on an effort to get Congress to preempt state GMO labeling laws.

Most Iowans know that theyÐll see a lot of presidential wannabes running around the Hawkeye state - shaking hands in coffee shops and eating pork chops at the Iowa State Fair Ð between now and the stateÐs first-in-the-nation caucuses, tentatively set for Feb.

International trade, the 2014 farm bill and concerns about government regulation were some of the key themes discussed when over 7,900 growers and agribusiness leaders Ð a new record Ð gathered in Phoenix for the 20th annual Commodity Classic.

The strict $125,000-per-person payment limit for commodity subsidies in the 2014 farm bill has created both short- and long-term problems for the cotton industry.

An era of robust dairy farm expansion for the nationÐs top milk producing state has stalled out as producers in California face hefty constraints on output.

An outbreak of hepatitis A in Australia stemming from imported berries has infected at least 18, leading the government to push for changes to its confusing food labeling laws.