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Rob Paarlberg's perspectives on alternative agriculture raise concerns from an Agri-Pulse reader

Leaders from more than 20 bioenergy stakeholder groups are briefing congressional leaders and staff today on the critical role that bio-based products for fuels and power must play in a diversity national energy strategy.

A group of more than 900 organizations, companies, institutions and individuals supported President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal for USDA’s entire Research, Education and Economics mission area in their letter to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture.

The Supreme Court made a unanimous decision on behalf of property owners in Sackett v. EPA today, limiting the government’s power to enforce the Clean Water Act (CWA) and allowing landowners to challenge EPA compliance orders in court.

The House Appropriations Committee hosted the hearing Wednesday morning over the Research, Education and Economics mission area of USDA. Research is one of the few areas that received an increase in funding under the Obama Administration’s 2013 budget proposal.

One of the best ways to mark World Water Day is to think: When you sit down for lunch or dinner, every meal you eat consumes water.

More than 850 FFA chapters in 12 states competed to win $275,000 in prizes by expanding agriculture education to local farmers in the FFA Chapter Challenge.

Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Tim Johnson, D-S.D., introduced legislation today that would place a hard cap on the farm payments an individual farmer could receive in a year and would close loopholes in the farm payment program.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., unveiled the “Path to Prosperity” budget proposal today, which instructs the House Committee on Agriculture to draft more than $33 billion in reductions over 10 years.