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The Obama administration has chosen 10 rural communities for a demonstration project where a handful of federal agencies, including USDA, will team up and try out new strategies for bringing families out of poverty.

USDAs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is inviting public comment on a proposed plan to strengthen oversight of field trials for genetically engineered wheat, following two recent detections of GE wheat where the plants should not have been growing. No varieties of GE wheat h

In a history-making address to Congress, Pope Francis called on lawmakers to put their focus on the �common good� in welcoming immigrants, fighting hunger and poverty and addressing climate change

- Buyers from China agreed to buy $5.3 billion worth of U.S. soy, totaling more than 484 million bushels of U.S. soybeans, during a signing ceremony today hosted by the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC).

Senate Republicans moved toward averting a government shutdown after Democrats blocked an attempt to use a stopgap spending bill to defund Planned Parenthood.

Chief negotiators for the U.S. and 11 other countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership are scheduled to continue their talks in Atlanta next week followed by a meeting of the nations trade ministers.

In keeping with his encyclical letter released earlier this year, Pope Francis spoke to a crowd of thousands on the White House South Lawn Wednesday morning on the urgent need to protect our common home from pollution and the effects of climate change.

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Timothy Glenn named president, DuPont Crop Protection WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2015  Timothy Glenn has been named president of DuPonts Crop Protection business effective Oct. 1, succeeding Rik Miller, whos retiring a