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The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) is planning a three-year consumer campaign to educate people about the value of the seed industry.

Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, the next chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, today named the Republican lawmakers who will lead the panel’s subcommittees in the 114th Congress.

The House has approved a bill that would provide the first congressional authorization for the Obama administration’s $1-billion-a-year Feed the Future initiative.

The Clean Water Act provisions in the massive fiscal 2015 spending agreement are likely to do little to slow an effort by farm groups to kill a proposed rule defining the law’s jurisdiction.

The Transportation Department’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today granted five regulatory exemptions for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations to four companies for aerial surveying, construction site monitoring and oil-rig flare stack inspections.

An EPA official refused Wednesday to tell lawmakers when the agency would finally release this year’s biofuel usage targets.

Midwestern agricultural interests are being left out in the cold in the immigration debate, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs says in a new report.

The House of Representatives today passed a bill that its Republican backers say would bring relief to drought-plagued California while Democratic opponents say it would weaken environmental laws and possibly ignite a water war between the northern and southern parts of the state.

Incoming House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway is setting up a separate subcommittee to oversee federal nutrition programs, confirming the food stamps and other feeding programs will be a major focus in the next Congress.

Lawmakers are hurrying to wrap up work on spending legislation before the temporary measure that is currently funding the government expires on Thursday.