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WASHINGTON, March 28, 2012 -On Wednesday, the House of Representatives will start debating and voting on a new 2013 budget and establishing budgetary levels from 2014 to 2022.

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2012 -The Wendy’s hamburger chain became the latest foodservice provider to require its U.S. pork suppliers to make plans to phase out the use of sow gestation stalls.

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2012 -The Senate spent much of Tuesday wrestling with means to bring energy legislation to the floor, with dozens of amendments offered to modify a bill repealing oil industry tax breaks and using the savings to fund extensions of renewable energy tax credits.

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2012 -Senate Republicans were expected to offer legislation Wednesday to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from moving forward with its guidance document on Clean Water Act jurisdiction

Washington week ahead, Senate Finance Committee plans to markup Russian trade package to expand exports and remove Jackson-Vanik restricitions.List of House and Senate hearings and events. Corn Congress

The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) warned that sequestration could have devastating effects on the nondefense discretionary (NDD) community

Crop conditions are continuing to deteriorate, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) weekly crop progress report.

House Republican freshmen wrote to President Obama expressing their commitment to work with him to grant Russia permanent normal trade relations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew its proposed Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) Reporting Rule late last week. The proposed rule would have required large livestock and poultry farmers to report information about their operations.

A united group of 46 agricultural and commodity groups sent a letter to House leadership today urging Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to bring the House Agriculture Committee's farm bill to the floor for a vote.