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NTCA The Rural Broadband Association is applauding the House of Representatives for passing the Communications Act Update Act of 2016, which includes provisions to combat problems of telephone calls failing to complete to rural areas as well as measures to relieve small business network o

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says Democrats need to do a better job of connecting with rural voters on their economic concerns in order to carry critical Midwest states in November. Vilsack, in an appearance at The Washington Post on Tuesday, the morning after the first presidenti

Bayer CropScience has decided to drop any further attempts to challenge cancellation of its registration for the insecticide flubendiamide, which it had sold under the trade name Belt.

Economists at Texas A&M University say the Bayer-Monsanto merger would boost cottonseed prices by more than 18 percent while the pending combination of Dow and DuPont would lead to far more modest increases in the prices of corn and soybean seed.

Egg producers are facing a massive bill, estimated be at least $5.6 billion, to remove the cages from their farms, and they fear the cost could turn out to be steeper. Now, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has become personally involved in an effort to work with the fo

There is reason to believe that we can move beyond the current political impasse and find solutions to address the need for foreign-born labor in U.S. agriculture. AGree recently convened leading voices on immigration, who laid-out several potential pathways forward.

USDA has set a December deadline to put together a comprehensive list of still unanswered questions related to the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard and to present that list to the public for feedback, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator Elanor Starmer said in an intervi

The organic sector is looking for a new rule beefing up animal welfare standards in the National Organic Program to further set its producers apart from traditional farming and ranching.

Hundreds of thousands of corn growers may participate in a class-action lawsuit against Syngenta for selling genetically modified seed with a trait that had not been approved by China. The plaintiffs, who did not use the GMO corn known as Agrisure Viptera and Duracade, claim that b

Like many other organizations, the National Pork Producers Council is gearing up for its farm bill push, and a pair of familiar issues are leading the way. As Agri-Pulse has reported, the need for a Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine bank is a likely topic of conversa