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By this time next year, I believe we ll reflect back on 2017 as the year that the private sector stepped up to protect our land, water and wildlife for future generations.

There is another name in the mix for the job of Agriculture Secretary in the Trump administration. Former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado was scheduled to talk to Trump about the job today, a Trump spokesman said.

Americans consume a lot of ham at Christmas time. In fact, half of U.S. ham consumption takes place over the Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays. And producing those hundreds of millions of pounds of pork generates a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.

President Barack Obama today announced the creation of two new national monuments, ensuring the protection of 1.65 million acres of federal land in Utah and Nevada.

Forecasters widely expected colder than normal temperatures to persist in the Pacific Ocean in the first half of 2017, bringing about a phenomenon known as La Nina, but those predictions are not being realized.

The U.S. has scored a big win in a trade dispute with Indonesia at the World Trade Organization.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is threatening to bring back tariffs against certain European Union agricultural exports if the trading bloc doesnÐt ease its ban on U.S. beef treated with hormones.

Sales of medically important antibiotics for food-producing animals rose by 2 percent last year and are up 26 percent since 2009, the Food and Drug Administration says in its latest annual report on usage of the drugs.

A farmworker safety rule scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1 needs to be delayed a year because EPA has not told states how to implement it, the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Association of State Departments of Agriculture said today.

ItÐs been three months since China announced that it would lift its 13-year ban on U.S. beef, but trade still hasnÐt resumed and the delay is testing the patience of U.S. ranchers.