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The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to consider a nearly four-year-old petition from dairy trade associations to allow the use of “any safe and suitable sweetener as an optional ingredient” in milk and 17 other dairy products.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2013 – A group of bipartisan senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., introduced legislation that would remove

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today from both sides of a patent case involving Monsanto and an Indiana soybean farmer

Senator Mike Johanns, R-Neb., announced he will not seek re-election in 2014. A former Secretary of Agriculture under President George W. Bush and Governor of Nebraska from 1999 to 2005, Johanns will retire after serving one term in the U.S. Senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2013 – Two Republican senators recently introduced legislation aiming to block Environmental Protection Agency waivers

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2013 - Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., led a group of senators and congressmen today to introduce the Sugar Reform Act, which would draw back price supports for U.S. sugar growers.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a four-week general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2013 – Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee ranking member Thad Cochran, R-Miss., and two farm organizations today criticized

Agri-Pulse Communications Inc. has named Aarian Marshall to serve as Associate Editor, based in Washington, D.C

The importance of crop insurance for both farmers and consumers was discussed at the NCIS conference in Indian Wells, CA this week