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The 46 million people living in rural America have access to a long list of USDA programs to help them and their businesses thrive, but are they enough?

Norway s giant oil and gas company Statoil says it is determined to build a profitable renewables business

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts and ranking member Debbie Stabenow say they re committed to passing legislation that would preempt state GMO labeling laws. But moves by food companies to start labeling their products may embolden Democrats to insist on a national requirement for so

An era that has seen some of the biggest advances in U.S. food safety reaches a new milestone with Michael Taylor s departure from the Food and Drug Administration, where he is deputy commissioner of foods, in charge of regulating 80 percent of the food supply.

The debate over a controversial USDA proposal to make convenience stores that participate in the food stamp program sell healthier foods just got more oxygen now that the department has added an extra month for public comment.

The overwhelming scientific evidence shows that genetically modified food is safe, panelists who addressed the issue at a recent Washington, D.C., forum agreed.

Although Congress finally passed a five-year bill to fund surface transportation at the end of 2015, its $60 billion a year in federal funding was essentially divvied out via formulas more than 30 years old, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says that needs to

White House advisory panel has released its review of the nation s action plan to combat antibiotic resistance, handing out praise to USDA and producers in some areas, but raising concerns with its call for a boost in on-farm surveillance.

Groups representing biodiesel and advanced biofuels hope to get extension of their industries expiring tax credits included in an FAA reauthorization bill. Democrats have been pushing Republicans to include extensions of some tax credits that they were say were mistakenly left out of the

The Federal Communications Commission was extra busy last week expanding a broadband subsidy for low-income Americans and reforming universal service rules to help small carriers deploy and operate broadband in rural areas.