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Two weeks after the 2014 farm bill was completed, Risk Management Agency (RMA) Administrator Brandon Willis wrote a memo to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, listing the required crop insurance changes and the timeline of when those changes could be available. He changed the t

Leading conservative groups are backing an effort by congressional critics of the crop insurance program to eliminate premium subsidies for the popular harvest-price revenue policies.

The White House is threatening to veto a House bill that would make permanent the Section 179 expensing allowance that is widely used by farmers to buy tractors and other agricultural equipment.

A labor dispute at West Coast ports is being felt across the country, but a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday examined if the country@s current infrastructure is helping exports, even with a fully employed labor force.

Despite new government subsidies, U.S. farm income will drop by nearly one-third this year because of the plunge in the price of corn, milk and other commodities, the Agriculture Department says. USDA@s Economics Research Services estimated Tuesday that net farm inc

What a difference a year makes for the U.S. sugar industry. When Michael Scuse, USDA Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Services, spoke at the 2014 International Sweetener Colloquium in California, he talked about Pre-export swaps,P 

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will testify before the House Committee on Agriculture about farm bill signup and other issues in our Washington Week Ahead preview. Clean Water Act, tax extenders, appropriations also in focus.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced today more than $3 million in funding to increase habitat for the monarch butterfly, whose numbers are estimated to have fallen by 90 percent in recent years.

A lawsuit waged by opponents of mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) was dropped today after it was defeated in the courts three times.

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., has named Matt Erickson, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation for the past four years, as the committeePs chief economist. Erickson also worked in USDAPs Rural Development office during the George