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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., today introduced two bills that aim to provide a “workable” temporary agricultural guest worker program and to ensure that the nation’s farm workers are documented.

Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and David Scott, D-Ga., yesterday introduced a bill that would offer dairy farmers revenue protection without what they call the “supply management” feature of the dairy section in last year’s Senate and House Agriculture Committee farm bills.

Senior members of the Senate Finance Committee signaled today that they want the administration to negotiate a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that expands market access for U.S. agricultural exports and protects patents and other intellectual property for such products as medicine

Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow plans to markup a new farm bill in committee next month and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., signaled that the full Senate will take up a new five-year farm bill in May.

USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) has been taking steps to reduce improper payments as part of a larger effort to cut costs

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., today urged agriculture groups and other stakeholders, who want a long-term farm bill, to focus more on lawmakers that have little experience in agricultural policy.

Agricultural leaders from the G-8 countries will begin a two-day conference in Washington on Monday to discuss policies for online global platforms that share data from publicly funded agricultural research.

Splitting Smithfield Foods into three independent companies by “divesting underperforming and highly volatile hog production and select European assets” and taking other steps would boost its share price to $40 within three years, Continental Grain said

The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology and Foreign Agriculture, held a public hearing to examine specialty crop priorities for the 2013 farm bill today but heard growers say that immigration reform is one of the most pressing issues they face.