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The Senate approved Senator Mark Udall’s, D-Colo., amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA) this afternoon.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists working as part of an international team completed a shotgun sequencing of the wheat genome, a paper published in the journal Nature reported today.

As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suspended the food facility registration of Portales, New Mexico-based Sunland Inc. Monday, worldwide concerns began to spread about the safety

The American Petroleum Institute (API) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia late Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its decision to mandate the use of 1.28 billion gallons of biodiesel in 2013, a 28 percent increase from the 2012 requir

Politics is politely avoided at Thanksgiving meals. However, this year politics gave proof to a marketing principle; know your customer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2012- House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, approved the recommendations of the House Republican Steering Committee for committee chairmen of the 113th Congress, which include retaining Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., for the Agriculture Committee.

Time is running short and clearly there is no lack of big-ticket items that need to be addressed in this lame duck session

Republicans in the Senate blocked passage of The Sportsmen’s Act, sponsored by Senator John Tester, D-Mont., Monday night based on grounds that it violated the Budget Control Act.

Food prices will continue to increase through 2013, according to the food price outlook report released by the USDA last Friday.