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The House and Senate Agriculture Committees spent the weekend working on the remaining details of their deficit reduction recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14–USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is awarding 29 grants across 19 states, totaling $46 million, through its Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI).

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13- The House and Senate approved trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama last night after almost five years of negotiations. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) called the passage “a good day for American exporters and the American economy.”

Much of modern agriculture's astonishing productivity is also a product of government-backed agricultural research

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13- The Dairy Advancement Act, a bill introduced yesterday to address the volatility of the nation’s dairy market, is supported by the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA).

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13- A letter signed by 127 Democratic members of Congress encourages the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to protect anti-hunger programs in their budget cutting decisions.

WASHINGTON, October 13 – A new USDA study shows that farmers using combinations of erosion-control and nutrient-management practices on cultivated cropland are reducing losses of sediment, nitrogen and phosphorous from farm fields and decreasing the movement of these materials to the Great Lakes an

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13- The four principal agriculture committee leaders, Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kans.) and Reps. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), have reached an agreement on $23 billion in Farm Bill savings to suggest to the Joint Select Committee on D

The long-term solutions to global hunger and food security remain a challenge, according to a new Global Agricultural Productivity Report.