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Deparment of the Interior and Agriculture will provide $9.1 million in funding. Five water districts in the Bay-Delta will benefit from cooperation.

Senate rejected a bill on Tuesday to cut billions in tax breaks for oil companies. Measure failed by a 52-48 vote.

Farmers continue to get more seeds in the ground. Analyst are trying to estimate how much more land will be planted to corn.

Although a potential deal to cut spending and raise the federal debt ceiling remains illusive, the U.S. government is expected to hit the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling on Monday.

Support for temporary use of Conservation Reserve Program lands is being suggested. Recent flooding and drought lead to Gene Schmidt suggesting use of CRP lands.

Four years after free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia were finalized, Congress and the White House have yet to finish the job.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sent a letter to Army Secretary John McHugh Wednesday encouraging him to rebuild the Birds Point-New Madrid levee in Missouri as flooding conditions worsen along the lower Mississippi River.

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky) announced detailed spending levels and a schedule for the completion of work on the 12 fiscal year 2012 Appropriations bills

Last week, the Obama Administration notified Congress that Colombia has met the first stage of commitments that they have required prior to moving forward on a new Free Trade Agreement.