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U.S. cattle industry groups are reporting that the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) issued a preliminary ruling on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) that strikes down the United States’ law.

U.S. Senator Pat Roberts sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson requesting answers to questions submitted by members of the Senate Agriculture Committee that remain unanswered.

U.S. Senate rejected a budget resolution sponsored by Rep. Paul Ryan.

The House Appropriations Committee released the subcommittee draft of the fiscal year 2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill, a cut in discretionary funding of over $2.6 billion from last year’s level and over $5 billion

The budget situation is looking so dire that some farm groups are calling for leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to hurry up the process.

The American Farm Bureau Federation now estimates that nearly 3.6 million acres of farmland has been impacted by the natural disaster

USDA officials began a two-day tour of flood areas. Mississippi river flooding assessed by officials.

Led by Reps. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Reid Ribble (R-Wis.), 147 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today, asking for USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration’s (GIPSA) to issue a revised rule on livestock and poultry

The White House and key lawmakers have penciled in a significant cut in agriculture spending

An Institute of Medicine committee seeking ways to accelerate efforts to prevent obesity found little support Thursday for the widely-touted thesis that farm price support programs are the cause of growing obesity and related diseases