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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the 2012 World Food Prize Laureate is Daniel Hillel, an expert in irrigation systems and the developer of “micro-irrigation.”

The U.S. Senate returns Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. to resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 3240, the “Agriculture Reform, food and Jobs Act of 2012.”

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -A University of Illinois analysis of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) deep-loss revenue protection proposal for the 2012 Farm Bill is raising some eyebrows in the Corn Belt.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Quietly and with little fanfare, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is mulling a significant change in its response to a potential Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak, recognizing that suppressing a widespread outbreak in a timely manner would

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Even though biodiesel producers are facing the same situation this year that it did in 2010 when expiration of the biodiesel tax incentive crippled production, the most important issue for the industry in 2012 is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2).

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -The American Farm Bureau Federation will meet with the Department of Labor next week to discuss the revised agricultural child labor rules first proposed last September.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -The House Science, Space and Technology Committee Tuesday morning marked up and sent to the House floor a measure calling on the EPA to commission a National Academy of Sciences study of the effects of blending 15 percent ethanol in gasoline.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Agency officials and constituent groups are braced for more belt-tightening when President Obama’s budget for USDA is made public Monday.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -The trustee for the liquidation of MF Global Inc. reported dim hopes for retrieving the remaining customer funds lost in the broker-dealer’s collapse last fall.