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The spending limits will increase pressure on appropriators to cut money from some farm bill programs, with conservation and rural development being possible targets.

Trade Promotion Authority comes down to a few votes in the House.

Republicans are moving standalone bills to kill the WOTUS rule outright while also pursuing appropriations language that would prevent the administration from implementing the rule for fiscal 2016.

There is an increase in the production of new biobased products and expanding uses P everything from clothing, carpet, cleaners and cosmetics to computer and car parts.

Obama administration proposes giving states bigger voice in selecting endangered species.

Ranchers and farmers who raise sheep and goats in the Western U.S. are up in arms over a Labor Department (DOL) proposal that would in many cases triple the wages of the foreign workers who tend to their livestock on the open range.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., last week introduced a bill that would require the Food and Drug Administration to set a maximum permissible level of inorganic arsenic in rice and food containing rice.

USDA says conservation compliance deadline probably won't be extended.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is confident that wind power is on track to provide reliable supply of at least 20 percent of U.S. electricity by 2030.

A group of 700 physicians and other healthcare professionals sent a letter of strong endorsement to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Sylvia Burwell today praising the Dietary Guidelines Advisory CommitteePs (DGAC) emphasis on lo