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USDA needs to develop and provide information to farmers on the economic costs and returns of taking certain actions in response to climate change, the Government Accountability Office said.

Hunters across the country are in the midst of a pheasant hunting season that looks to be the most promising in recent years, but a representative with a wildlife conservation group says thats not the whole story.

Grower groups and members of Congress commended Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday, after he announced that the Actual Production History (APH) Yield Exclusion will be available for selected crops starting in the spring of 2015. Program details will be announced in Decemb

The launch last month of USDAs new Margin Protection Program (MPP), intended to help Americas 45,000 dairy farmers survive when feed costs overtake milk income, has provoked a debate over whether it is compatible with U.S. trade interests.

Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter to the president of the European Commission on Tuesday, asking him to complete the regulatory process for eight biotechnology products pending before the EC. The European Commission is the executive arm of the EU.

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report sheds new light on the hurdles that producers, manufacturers and consumers will continue to face as economic activity improves and more freight moves across already overcrowded U.S. roads and railways.

The National Cattlemens Beef Association and 45 state associations sent a letter to Agriculture Tom Vilsack on Tuesday urging him to reconsider his efforts to increase funding for the beef industry by reforming the Beef Checkoff administratively.

Fracking � injecting a high-pressure, sand-water-chemical mix to tap natural gas by fracturing deep rock formations � is boosting natural gas supplies, lowering prices, and promising a bonanza in revenue and jobs for 31 states with prov

Agricultural technology continues to improve by leaps and bounds, but use of drone technology in farming is not keeping pace, hampered by delays in regulatory approval, or confusion about rules already in place.

Coming soon: a potential determination on whether or not the northern long-eared bat species, prevalent throughout much of the United States, will be listed as �endangered� by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). A decision, whi