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Environmental groups are ratcheting up the pressure on EPA to move on a legal petition they filed in March urging the immediate suspension of a pesticide the groups say is linked to colony collapse disorder (CCD)

Corn prices are climbing as blistering heat and dry conditions wilt crops in the Midwest, and a timely discussion at the National Press Club echoed concerns as the six to ten day forecast indicates rain is unlikely.

Farmers planted an estimated 96.4 million acres of corn this spring, up 5 percent from last year and the highest planted acreage in the United States since 1937 when an estimated 97.2 million acres were planted, according to a USDA report released today. Growers expect to harvest 88.9 million acres

Calling the Senate’s reforms to crop insurance a “cynical game of bait and switch,” Environmental Working Group (EWG) Senior Vice President of Agriculture and Natural Resources Craig Cox said that the program “is spending far in excess of the $50 million that would have been spent on direct payment

American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman issued a statement today regarding his concerns of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, which includes issuing the individual mandate as a tax.

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2011- The House Agriculture Appropriations bill is unlikely to hit the floor until after the House Agriculture Committee’s markup of farm bill legislation beginning on July 11, said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., today.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a lawsuit in federal court charging hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, who funded the proposed and now bankrupt LightSquared network, with market manipulation, preferential treatment to several big investors and borrowing cash from his hedge f

Dairy groups asked Congress this week to guarantee that regulations designed to protect the environment against toxic waste do not ensnare dairy farmers and others who raise farm animals.

The House Budget Committee marked up the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 today, voting against an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., That would replace the $1.2 trillion sequester by eliminating direct payments to farmers and increasing taxes on domestic oil companies, among

The House Appropriations Committee is expected tomorrow to finish marking up and adopt a fiscal 2013 measure that budgets $28 billion for EPA and the Interior Department