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The Obama campaign criticizes Mitt Romney's record on agriculture in Massachusetts, but Romney supporters say claims are misleading and that he was a strong supporter of agriculture in his state.

House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., committed to holding a vote on the 2012 Farm Bill following the Nov. 6 election today during a campaign stop in Boise, Idaho for Rep. Paul Labrador, R-Idaho.

National Food Day, an effort created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, hosted a panel of academics and food analysts last night to discuss their visions for food and agriculture a few decades from now.

While global investments in agricultural research increased overall in the past decade, spending in low-income countries grew only by 2 percent per year from 2000 to 2008 or stagnated or declined, according to the ASTI Global Assessment of Agricultural R&D Spending report.

Cuba announced a decree to allow farmers to lease more state-owned fallow land

The November 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report will include changes to the WASDE soybean and products table.

The red and blue highlighted U.S. map we see so frequently as election time nears can be disheartening for rural voters.

If consumers voted on the way their food is produced, half the women would be undecided while 40 percent of men would favor the status quo.

The Ranchers-Cattlemen’s Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) has asked for a federal investigation of JBS USA’s plan to assume management of, and potentially acquire, U.S. and Canadian slaughter plants owned by XL Foods of Alberta.

Food Policy Action, a new advocacy group that hopes to bring “political clout” to the burgeoning food movement, launched its new National Food Policy Scorecard today at Washington-area restaurant Oyamel.