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A House Agriculture subcommittee continued a series of hearings in advance of writing legislation to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which lapsed in September 2013, focusing today on complex rules for international markets.

Corn ethanol advocate Growth Energy is fighting against the requests of several lawmakers who wrote to the House Appropriations leadership to diminish government support for the ethanol industry.

Expect the Protection Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy that expired in December to be renewed this summer along with other tax breaks Ð but not until Congress has made its best Ð and ultimately futile -- effort to agree on comprehensive tax reform.

Rising commodity prices resulted in record high farm incomes and land values in recent years, but experts warn those days may be coming to a rather abrupt end, bringing swift repercussions to landlords, input suppliers and taxpayers who may see farm program costs rise again.

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, say the 2014 drought will cost the state $2.2 billion, with $1.5 billion in direct losses to agriculture and the loss of more than 17,000 full and part-time jobs, and result in the greatest depletion of w

Sometime in the future, producers should be able to use precision technology to collect all of the data used in their farming operations and send verification via the Internet to their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office or crop insurance agent for collection by the Risk Management

Lawmakers and ranchers are praising USDA for its timely delivery of livestock disaster assistance authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill, but some legislators say row crop producers need quicker implementation of crop insurance provisions designed to help them after years of drought.

The 14-member Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) will be meeting this week in Bethesda, Maryland, for the first time since March. The panel is tasked with establishing recommendations for the 2015 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

University of California President Janet Napolitano is committing the 10 campuses in the UC system to a Global Food Initiative, a plan to leverage the state's role in agriculture and research to tackle the worldÐs most pressing food problems.

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2014 Ð The European Union is looking at extending its five-year-old imposition of countervailing duties against biodiesel from the United States, maintaining the biofuel made from soybeans and animal fat is supported by U.S. and state governmen