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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
The Canadian government said a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in a beef cow in Alberta, but said no part of the animal entered the human or animal food supply.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to put the House on record urging President Obama to step in and end a labor dispute snarling West Coast ports if the union doesn't reach an agreement soon with the port operators.
House Agriculture Committee members questioned Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Timothy Massad today on the agency s 2015 agenda, including new regulations in the swaps market, end-user protection and cyber security.
Outbreaks linked to raw milk have increased sharply as the unpasteurized product has grown in popularity, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A new study released Thursday says droughts in the latter half of this century are likely to be more severe than even the decades-long megadroughts that hit the Southwest and central Plains during Medieval times an unprecedented fundamental climate shift.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Democrat Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota introduced legislation today to lift the half-century old Cuba trade embargo.
The chairman of the House Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee today told the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the agency wont be getting the $72 million increase in spending President Obama is asking for.
Appropriations subcommittees in the House and Senate questioned the Army Corps of Engineers today on President Obamas proposal to reduce spending for the agency in fiscal year 2016, while allocating $5 million for waters of the United States implementation.
A bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline is headed to President Barack Obama for a certain veto after getting final congressional approval in the House on Thursday.
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on the Tax Reform Act of 1986 the most recent major simplification of the tax code -- as members looked to the past for inspiration.
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