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U.S. farm exports hit record highs. American farmers and ranchers are helping lead the way to recovery.

President Obama wants Congress to overhaul the U.S. Immigration system. He said immigration reform will be a boost to the U.S. Economy.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife unveiled new work plant that will allow focus on most endangered. The plan is a proposed settlement with Wild Earth Guardians

Congress watchers might content themselves this week with a look at farm trade agreements. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack plans to make a pitch on the Hill for stalled deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

US Ag Secretary Vilsack and Energy Sec. Chu awarded $47 million to fund eight research and development projects.

The use of federally-approved products to protect crops and human health could be jeapordized. A struggle between EPA, FWS and NMFS is happening.

a bipartisan group of Midwestern Senators introduced the Domestic Energy Promotion Act of 2011. The bill would reduce the current 45-cent per gallon blender's credit, also known as the volumetric ethanol excise tax credit, or VEETC, to a variable rate, based on the price of oil.

the House Agriculture Committee approved H.R. 1573, a bill that Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla, describes as a “common-sense way” to give regulators an additional 18-months to write and vet the rules governing derivatives under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Ac

The Army Corps of Engineers blew a two-mile hole in the Birds Point-New Madrid levee, flooding 130,000 acres of farmland

USDA has awarded an additional $1 million of FY2011 Market Access Program (MAP) funds to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) to augment their ongoing beef promotion in South Korea.