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75 agriculture, food organizations send letter to President Obama urging him to "quickly welcome" Japan to TPP talks.

President Obama signs continuing resolution into law avoiding government shutdown and meat inspector furloughs.

China is on track for a fourth consecutive decade of growth and could overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy in 2016, according to a new survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

DuPont announced today that it entered into a series of technology licensing agreements with Monsanto that include a multi-year, royalty-bearing license for Monsanto’s next-generation soybean technologies in the United States and Canada.

The Senate narrowly approved a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution, S.Con.Res. 8, early this morning on a largely partisan 50-49 vote, representing the first time in four years the chamber has approved a budget.

After Congress completed work on the continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown and furlough of FSIS inspectors, President Obama is set to sign it into law.

The Senate approves first budget in four years containing several non-binding ag-related provisions

Environmental and consumer groups filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week in opposition to the agency’s policies regarding a particular class of commonly used chemicals, which the groups say endanger honey bee populations.

Executive Director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Roberto Lenton hosted conversations about these challenges in Washington D.C. this week as well as today at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (DWFI).

The House approved today, with a 221-207 party-line vote, its fiscal year 2014 budget bill (H.Con.Res. 25) that would reduce deficits by $4.6 trillion over the next 10 years by making major cuts to many domestic programs.