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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved additional rules under the Dodd-Frank Act during its nineteenth open rules meeting today. Today’s two proposed rules to Title VII set a timeline for the market to comply with new swaps regulations.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today announced the appointment of 148 private-sector members to the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee (APAC) and six Agricultural Technical Advisory Committees (ATACs).

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7- The Senate Committee on Appropriations approved the FY 2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill today, at a decrease of $138 million below the Fiscal Year 2011. Conservation programs faced the largest cuts, while priorities went to programs directly related to public health and nu

The bipartisan “super committee,” charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in savings from the federal budget before Thanksgiving, is gearing up for their first meeting, which by law must be held by Sept. 16. If this new “Gang of 12” fails to reach an agreement, automatic spending cuts would be

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2- Farmland values in the Midwest are 17 percent higher from last year for the second quarter of 2011, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The Seventh Federal Reserve District, which includes Iowa, parts of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan, also has stronge

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1- The 2012 forecast for agricultural exports remain at $137 billion, while imports to rise to $105 billion, according to the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade report released yesterday. The trade balance for 2012 is a surplus of $32 billi

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31- Hurricane Irene’s high winds and excessive rain caused power outages, flooding, and agricultural damage across much of the East Coast. Many reports indicate that tobacco growers are suffering total losses in North Carolina and Virginia, and overall losses are predicted to cost

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30- The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) released the Farm Income and Costs report today, which indicates that 2011 net farm income will increase more than 30 percent from 2010 while government payments will be decreased 17 percent.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29- U.S. exports of agricultural machinery continued to grow in 2011 and ended the first half of the year with a gain of 15 percent, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). Midyear 2011 exports totaled $5.6 billion compared to January-June 2010. The off-road

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30- The Chesapeake Bay Watershed, an area under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce water pollution, will become a site of conservation experimentation through a collection of grants announced by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service on Aug. 22.