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According to a group of international researchers in plant genetics, what lies between the current state of wheat breeding and the elusive wheat genome sequence is about $13 million.

Republicans on the Senate committee responsible for writing the Food and Drug AdministrationPs (FDA) budget attacked the agencyPs new menu labeling rule, which they claim is overly broad in its regulation of supermarket delis and other non-restaurant food outlets.

Waterways Council Inc. (WCI) is concerned about what President Barack Obama0s spending plans may do to the nation0s already fragile inland waterways system.

Spokane, Washington, joined fellow Pacific Northwest cities Eugene, Oregon and Seattle in banning the use of insecticides containing neonicotinoids on city property in an effort to ease pressure on declining pollinator populations.

Two recent events on Capitol Hill are colliding in a potentially significant way. First, on March 9, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) P the scorekeeper for federal legislators on budgetary matters P issued its budget PbaselineP that will be used in decision

A cohort of mostly GOP Senators is calling on USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services to make sure lean meat is included in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2015 &#-15472; Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says he wants to have legislation ready by the beginning April to provide the president with fast-track trade authority. Hatch and the committee&#-15472;s r

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to Arkansas, the third state where the virus has been reported in the Mississippi flyway, all on turkey farms.

In competing news conferences today, producers of corn ethanol attacked, while the petroleum industry defended, a proposal to reopen the legislation that created the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief today supporting the six states challenging California0s egg law that places hen cage size restrictions on any shell eggs sold in the state.