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USDA released a new Regional Development Priority (RDP) policy Wednesday that details how the agency will support rural economic development by providing loans to small businesses and grants for community infrastructure improvements.

The administration is expected to release the final pwaters of the United Statesp (WOTUS) rule in the next week or so. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has been promising to refine the definitions in the proposed rule to address concerns raised by critics.

While the agricultural industry is anticipating more business due to President Barack Obamaps actions to normalize relations with Cuba, several members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today questioned the administrationps ability to negotiate with a totalitarian communist s

Senate Republican leaders have been working to get the fast-track trade bill to the finish line this week, ahead of the Memorial Day recess. But the debate was dragging amid negotiations over how many amendments would be considered.

A new, comprehensive discipline in the use of antibiotics for animals will apply to all animal care by the end of next year.

Tuesdayðs Senate Energy Committee hearing on energy supply issues considered 26 legislative proposals vying for inclusion in a comprehensive energy bill package.

Administration officials could learn in the next few days whether Brazil could challenge the legality of commodity programs created by the 2014 farm bill.

The House voted to remove the lesser prairie chicken from the list of threatened species to give time for a regional conservation plan to restore the birdPs Plains habitat. An amendment that the House adopted on a near party-line vote, 229-190, to the defense authorization

Several witnesses told a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee that a Republican sponsored bill designed to improve transparency and accountability in the EPAps scientific advisory process would actually add new bureaucratic inefficiencies and present ethical dilemmas.

As legislation to ease the approval of trade agreements works its way through Capitol Hill, agricultural leaders are wondering how the actions of a key trading partner will impact trade talks across the Atlantic Ocean.