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USDA finally announced a proposed rule Ð authorized in the 2014 farm bill - to limit farm payments to people who are Ðactively engagedÐ in farming, potentially closing a loophole in non-family farm businesses that allows some larger joint ventures and general partnership

The global organic market is worth an estimated $72 billion, and nearly half of all organic products are sold in the U.S. The 2014 farm bill and four trade equivalency agreements have further positioned this demand-driven market for growth if certain challenges can be overcome&

Peanut growers may find themselves in a type of perfect peanut storm: Even though peanut prices have dropped, some growers are likely to plant more.

The final report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) has generated quite a bit of controversy with livestock and meat groups pushing back against including the inclusion of sustainability language that targets red meat consumption in a report which was supposedly focused on

The worldÐs top sugar exporters are essentially forming a 'circular firing squad,' aiming trade distortion accusations at one another, so Phillip Hayes of the American Sugar Alliance argues there is no better time for attempting to eliminate subsidies worldwide.

Recent bird flu-related bans on U.S poultry are affecting about 14 percent of the countryÐs chicken and turkey exports, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testified at a Senate hearing last week.

Preparing for the U.N. climate treaty talks in Paris in December, the Obama administration has committed the U.S. to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2025 through measures such as its proposed Clean Power Plan to limit coal power plant emissions.

The Senate passed its version of the Trade Promotion Authority bill (HR1314) just ahead of the recess. House GOP leaders say they€ll take it up in June but haven€t announced a schedule yet.

American Agri-Women call on the Administration to ensure that all potential pollinator issues raised in the report are looked at carefully with sound science at the core of any investigations and subsequent decisions.

Rather than bring peace to the fight over the Renewable Fuel Standard, todayps announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency seems to have stirred up both sides.