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Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting grant applications to assist small, socially disadvantaged agricultural producers and cooperatives in rural areas to spur job creation

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service released an update on the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) detection announced earlier this week with additional information about the history and age of the infected animal.

According to the United Fresh, the Senate Agriculture Committee’s 2012 Farm Bill “answers the call over the last year to continue to build on the investments made in the 2008 Farm Bill.”

The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 16-5 to advance a new five-year farm bill that promises to save taxpayers over $23 billion via reforms to farm, conservation and nutrition programs.

A bipartisan amendment that would add some $800 million in mandatory funding to farm bill energy title programs was adopted by the Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced today the withdrawal of the proposed rule dealing with children under the age of 16 who work in agricultural vocations.

South Dakota Senator John Thune said last night’s decision to postpone marking up the 2012 Farm Bill was driven in large part by “objections raised at the last minute by a couple of senators from the northern states and a senator from a southern state,

The Senate Committee on Appropriations approved the FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill today with overall discretionary spending for fiscal year 2013 at $20.785 billion.

The president of the National Corn Growers Association today told a House Agriculture subcommittee that "it's important to acknowledge that farm bill conservation programs have had significant positive impacts over the past several decades

With a bipartisan vote of 312-111, the House of Representatives approved Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s, R-Mo., bill to help small and rural businesses obtain loans and create jobs through revisions to the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act.