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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., held a teleconference Friday afternoon from Portland, Oregon where wildfires are raging to stress the necessity of reforming the wildfire suppression budget.
Some producer groups are asking the Obama administration to delay enforcement of its new Clean Water Act rule until a court case is resolved.
The administration considers implementation of the rule blocked in only 13 states as a result of last weeks decision by a North Dakota fe
Iowa farmers are bracing for another year of belt tightening ` cutting back on everything from cash rent, to fertilizer and farm equipment - as they expect farm income to drop once again in 2015-16.
USDA announced today it plans to invest an additional $211 million over the next three years in its 11-state, public-private partnership conservation effort to save the greater sage grouse.
USDA has approved a potato genetically engineered by J.R. Simplot Co. to resist late blight, the disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and still threatens crops around the globe.
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule from going into effect on Friday in a number of states, a victory for agricultural interests and state attorneys general engaged in lawsuits to halt the rule.
Agriculture exports for fiscal year 2016 are projected at $138.5 billion, down $1 billion from the revised $139.5 billion for the current year, USDA said today in a report.
Monsanto today abandoned its efforts to buy Swiss agribusiness and chemical maker Syngenta, acknowledging that its $46 billion bid had failed to meet Syngentas financial expectations.
Brian Baenig, who recently stepped down as chief of staff to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, is joining the Biotechnology Industry Organization as executive vice president for BIOs Food and Agriculture Section.
Many of the 2016 presidential candidates naturally are reluctant to outline specific policies this early in the campaign particularly when GOP front-runner Donald Trumps lack of positions seem to be helping him surge in the early polls, rather than hurting.
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