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USDA is offering up to $20 million in grant funding through the Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) program for carbon credit project proposals.

Key congressional committees start laying the groundwork this week for pushing the Obama administration s trade agenda through Congress

Farm programs will cost $18 billion more over the next decade than previously estimated, due to lower commodity prices and a surge in demand for livestock disaster assistance, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The American Midwest faces ðeconomic disruptions as climate change advances, reduces labor productivity, and shifts agricultural production patterns.ð The threats include the potential shift of ðgrowing patterns for major commodity crops to the north ðputting indivi

USDA s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic (HPAI) H5N8 avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in Stanislaus County, California.

Nebraska`s 3rd Congressional District is the top agricultural producing district in the nation, edging out the 4th District of Iowa, according to figures from USDA`s 2012 Census of Agricultural.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2015 ` Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today announced several key selections to the panel`s senior staff.

The U.S. has formally accepted the World Trade Organization`s so-called Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), an accord designed to cut red tape among trading partners and which is projected to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity.

Food prices rose by 2.4 percent last year, less than the historical average, despite sharp increases in meat costs and the drought in California, the Agriculture Department says. Food costs have historically risen by 2.6 percent a year. USDA`s Eco

An Auburn University professor says his research shows that U.S. country-of-origin meat labeling rules played no role in the decline in cattle exports to the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.