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Cannabis and its supporters are on the march. Voters in eight states decided last week to legalize the herb for recreational or medical purposes, pushing it even further into the mainstream of American farming.

Chairman Mike Conaway, Vice-President Elect Mike Pence, Trump administration, President Obama, Tom Vilsack, Senator Pat Roberts, China, genetically engineered crops, Joint commission on Commerce and Trade, Organic Standards Board, Sam Farr,

An Alaska Airlines flight took off from Seattle today and landed at Washington Reagan National Airport in what USDA is calling a °breakthrough in bioenergy.°

EPA has added epidemiological expertise to a scientific advisory panel (SAP) that will meet next month to consider the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate. The previously postponed meeting is now scheduled to take place Dec. 13-16 in Arlington, Virginia.

Trans-Pacific Partnership, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, President-elect Donald Trump, David Salmonsen, South Korea, Panama, Canada, Japan, Canadian Cattlemen's Association, Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, CEPA

Lawmakers return this week for a lame duck session that will lay the groundwork for the next Congress

Donald Trump, Chuck Conner, Don Villwock, Hillary Clinton, Tom Vilsack, Mike Pence, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Mike Torrey, National Association of Conservation Districts, Lee McDaniel, Brent Van Dyke, African Swine Fever

USDA is marking Veterans Day, Nov. 11, by honoring its employees who have served in the armed forces and by inviting service members to seek a career in agriculture once they hang up their uniforms. USDA is marking Veterans Day, Nov. 11, by honoring its employe

Former Secretary of agriculture John Block and former Obama advisor Marshall Matz offer advice to farmers and agribusiness leaders about the Trump transition.

Dow AgroSciences says U.S. farmers may soon have their last opportunity to respond to EPA0s proposal to revoke all food tolerances for the insecticide chlorpyrifos, which Dow called a 0critical tool for U.S. agriculture.