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The White House announced this week several measures the Administration is implementing to address the drought and criticized Congress for not yet passing a disaster aid package or a five-year farm bill.

The American Sugar Alliance released a study of Europe’s 2006 sugar policy reform during its 29th International Sweetener Symposium in an effort to deter opponents of U.S. sugar policy from implementing similar changes.

Following a petition from livestock, poultry and dairy industry members and a similar appeal from 156 members of the House, 25 U.S. senators today urged EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to use her waiver authority to adjust the corn-ethanol mandate for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Rabobank’s International Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) released a study last week predicting continued pressure for cattle feeders in the United States.

The Senate Finance Committee included several biofuel tax credit provisions in its tax extender package passed Thursday. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., released a summary of the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012, a package that includes more than $205 billio

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced a 9.6 percent increase in the National Farmers Market Directory, which she says is a good indicator of the upward trend in consumers buying local food. USDA’s directory, a database published online at farmersmarkets.usda.gov, identifie

The House of Representatives voted to pass a livestock disaster aid package, the Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012, today with a 223-197 vote.

Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, criticized the Senate for not considering the livestock disaster aid package passed by the House earlier today.

The House of Representatives, unable to get the GOP votes to advance a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill this week, will consider a stand-alone livestock disaster aid package Thursday before leaving for August recess at the end of the week.

During a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing to examine the failures of MF Global and the Peregrine Financial Group, a witness on the second panel representing the National Grain and Feed Association said bankruptcy codes need to be harmonized with those at the CFTC.