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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced loans and grants for agricultural producers and rural small businesses. The funding is provided through USDA Rural Development's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).

meeting the world’s future food needs is a “complex undertaking,” Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind. said during a speech at the New America Foundation. Other countries, particularly Africa, must do much more to grow their own food, Lugar pointed out.

The Internal Revenue Service today issued the 2012 optional standard mileage rates

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 – It’s Christmas time in Washington and the city is brimming with beautiful lights, holiday parties, pledges of good cheer and a substantial “to do” list before lawmakers finally decide to call it a wrap for the year.

the National FFA Foundation raised a record $16 million through corporate and private financial contributions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 – Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson gave the keynote address at the U.S.-Russia Business Council’s Agribusiness Forum in Omaha this morning. He applauded the progress the United States and Russia have made as economic trade partners, but also pushed Russia to end practices that put A

Negotiators at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 17th Conference of the Parties found enough common ground to strike a deal on climate change, albeit one with plenty of details yet to be negotiated.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8- What led to the misuse of MF Global customer funds is unknown, largely due to the enormous number of transactions made in the hours before the firm’s collapse, said Former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine when he testified before the House Committee on Agriculture today.

DECEMBER, Nov. 9- The season-average farm prices for corn, wheat and soybeans, soybean meal and soybean oil are reduced in this month’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE ) report released by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS). Ending stocks for corn and wheat and soybeans r

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a federal advisory committee to guide the creation of a 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC).