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Donald TrumpÐs election should help ensure that farm groups can fight off challenges to agricultural programs when Congress starts work on the next farm bill in 2017, according to a veteran of multiple farm bill battles.

USDA0s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend the nutrition labeling regulations for meat and poultry products to parallel the FDA0s final nutrition regs, which were published in May.

The first microchannel gas-to-liquid (GTL) plant in the U.S. is expected to begin converting landfill gas into liquid petroleum by yearÐs end, after construction was completed in September

The cost of solar-generated electricity can be decreased by 50 percent between 2020 and 2030, the Department of Energy says.

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EPA raised ethanol and biodiesel hopes last week when it increased the amount of biofuels that must be blended with the nationÐs gasoline for 2017.

USDA says that an already grim financial picture in the farm sector has actually gotten worse and will continue to do so.

- Lawmakers are working toward wrapping up the 114th Congress as soon as next week, and it looks as if theyÐll leave town without doing anything about the expiring tax benefits for biodiesel and other biofuels but a couple of other pieces of ag-related legislation could still pass