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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20- The Rural Energy for America Program will add 50 more blender pumps before the end of the fiscal year, said Agriculture Secretary Vilsack at an ethanol industry group conference today. These will be in addition to the 194 pumps announced last week.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21- President Obama’s proposal to trim farm program spending by $33 million over 10 years looks generous to agriculture if you compare it with a recommendation of a panel of agricultural economists convened by the American Enterprise Institute. They urged that the “super committee

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 – President Barack Obama finally showed farm country how he thinks farm programs should be cut as part of the deficit reduction process today. In a Rose Garden speech, the President called for $33 billion in cuts for farm programs, including direct payments, crop insurance and

President Barack Obama plans to call for a new minimum tax rate on millionaires Monday, dubbed the “Buffett Rule” after Omaha, Neb., billionaire investor Warren Buffett, as part of his plan to create new jobs and rewrite the U.S. tax code.

Over 13% of those cuts, totalling $33 billion, would come from agriculture subsidies, payments, and programs.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16--With football season in full swing, the United Soybean Board has a timely opportunity to remind sports’ fans about the increasing uses for soybeans in bio-based industrial products. Kansas State University is one of the latest customers for AstroTurf® GameDay Grass™, a soy-ba

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15—Rep. Michael Turner, Chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, took the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Obama Administration to task for moving ahead with approval for the LightSquared network, despite “significant” threats to national sec

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2011 – The Department of Agriculture announced today more than $27 million in loans and grants for more than 500 rural businesses and agricultural producers to incorporate renewable energy processes in their operations.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on a petition filed by the environmental advocacy group Save the Frogs to ban the use and production of atrazine.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14--Livestock and poultry producers gathered in front of the House Agricultural Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry today to contest policies they say are driving feed costs to record highs.