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Senators debated the merits of legislation that would create a national standard for clean energy use in electric energy generation during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing today.

National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson sent a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler today urging the chairman to establish a 30-day public comment period to discuss the extension of electronic commodity trading up to 22 hours per day

the CME Group plans to offer expanded market access to a variety of CBOT futures and options 21 hours per day, rather than the 22-hour trading day that was previously proposed on May 1

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The United States is not sustaining its historically strong investments in biomedical research that once propelled it to global life sciences leadership, while other nations are increasing their investments in the field, stated a report released by United for Medical Research (UMR) and The Informat

Political and market forces could combine to create a “perfect storm” of elements that contribute to a new dust bowl in parts of the Great Plains, in the view of former USDA Economic Research Service Administrator Katherine (Kitty) Smith.

While the House Agriculture Committee considers its development of the 2012 Farm Bill, the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management questioned agricultural economists and commodity groups about their views on the Senate Committee-passed version during a Wednesday Farm Bill heari

Forty four senators call for farm bill floor debate in the Senate

Debra S. Fischer, a rancher and state senator from Nebraska’s sparsely-populated sand hills, upset two better-known men with experience in statewide elections, yesterday to win the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate this fall. She will face Democratic nominee Bob Kerrey, a former governor an

In a letter to the House Committee on Agriculture today, Congressmen John Garamendi (Calif.) and Jerry McNerney (Calif.) and Congresswoman Lois Capps (Calif.), and 29 of their colleagues in the California Congressional Delegation detailed their priorities for the 2012 Farm Bill.