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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., offered President Barack Obama’s deficit reduction proposal for a vote on the Senate floor Wednesday, but Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., blocked the motion, calling it a “Republican political stunt.”

Today, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas announced the new Republican Members who are expected to serve on the Committee in the 113th Congress.

The EPA announced yesterday its approval of grain sorghum as an eligible feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard, meaning that advanced biofuels may now be produced from cereal.

In a decision published Tuesday, A WTO Arbitrator gave the Unites States until May 23, 2013 to comply with a ruling that challenged Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements for meat.

Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., is confident that a farm bill will be part of larger fiscal cliff talks, the congressman indicated during a press call yesterday.

Luetkemeyer said he saw no willingness from Democrats to cut entitlements as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations and said Republicans were unwilling to raise top tax rates to generate more revenue – preferring to cap loopholes and deductions in the tax code instead.

Cheers from some lawmakers, and jeers from others, greeted news today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hasten to divert water from the Missouri River into the drought-depleted Mississippi.

Sen. Pat Roberts says he is open to compromising on the commodity title, potentially removing one of the biggest stumbling blocks between the two versions fo the farm bill