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Looming among the last-minute business for the adjourning 114th Congress is a bevy of investments and directives in atmospheric and climate science and communications aimed to keep Americans safer, help farmers and ranchers succeed, broaden participation in weather forecasting, and

If China is going to overhaul its agricultural biotechnology approval process, it looks like it will have to happen during the Trump administration, a dubious proposition given the antagonism that the president-elect showed towards China during and after the election campaign.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who describes himself as a longtime friend of Chinese President Xi Jinping, is President-elect Donald Trump's selection to be ambassador to China, a critical market for U.S. agricultural exports that Trump has threatened with trade actions&

- The election of Donald Trump provides ag retailers an opportunity for us to take on some real regulatory reform, Agricultural Retailers Association CEO Darren Coppock told the groups members at their annual conference in Orlando last week.

Neither organic agriculture nor advanced biotechnology will solve Cubas food production deficit, a noted expert on the countrys food needs told Washington audiences Tuesday. Former World Food Prize winner Pedro Sanchez, research professor of tropical soils at the University

A new documentary doesnt exactly paint a rosy picture of life as a contract chicken farmer, but some of these poultry producers remain optimistic about possible improvements and help from a new administration.

Members of EPAs Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, meeting Tuesday in New Orleans, heard from Louisiana state officials and a representative of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board about the need to take action on the Gulfs dead zone&#

Terry Branstad, China ambassador, Donald Trump, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Chairman Pat Roberts, Mike Conaway, Farm Service Agency, House Agriculture Committee, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, catfish inspection, FDA

President-elect Donald Trump is already running into resistance from the House Republican leadership over his threat to impose stiff tariffs on companies that outsource jobs.

President-elect Donald Trump, Terry Brandstead, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Eric Branstad, FSA farm loans, Continuing Resolution, National Farmers Union, National Grange, National Rural Lenders Association, Independent Community Bankers of America