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Meta-analyses of existing research studies, published Tuesday in the British Journal of Nutrition, assert that switching to organic milk and meat @would go some way towards increasing our intake of nutritionally important fatty acids.@

Advisory teams to the U.S. Grains Council will issue plans for 2016 today that are expected to address market development and regulatory matters. One topic sure to get lots of attention at USGC@s annual meeting this week in Sarasota, Florida, is what can be done ab

Late last week, Russia instituted a temporary ban on U.S. corn and soybean imports after the country raised concerns about potential diseases being carried in through the crops, but the ban raised an interesting conundrum. The U.S. doesn@t send any corn to

The United States is in dire need of a robust vaccination bank if it wants to protect the nation@s multibillion dollar livestock industry from the ravages of a highly contagious and difficult-to-control virus: Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). At least that@s what lives

Developing country farmers could see productivity and income grow faster with genetically-improved seeds but are blocked by @unduly restrictive regulations and trade barriers@ stimulated by European-led activist campaigns that influence UN bodies and flout scientific evidence,

Late last week, the nation learned of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, which sent Capitol Hill leadership into an almost immediate verbal sparring match over whether President Obama, or the next president, should be the one to nominate Scalia@s successor.

The federal crop insurance program can celebrate several successes, but one of the biggest comes from reducing the improper payment rate by more than 50 percent

Integrating agriculture more fully into the global marketplace will help farmers and the worldPs poorest people adapt to the rising temperatures that accompany climate change, a Purdue University agricultural economist said this past weekend at the annual meeting of the American Associatio

EPA chief Gina McCarthy put up a stout defense at a House Agriculture Committee hearing today to charges that her agency is out of touch with the farming community, stating that she works closely with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and has Pgreat respectP for USDA.

Three new national monument designations covering 1.8 million acres of California will connect Mojave National Preserve, Joshua Tree National Park, San Bernardino National Forest, and 15 wilderness areas previously designated by Congress.