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Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow asks EPA to accept delaying new pesticide rules by supporting an extended stay for the National Cotton Council v. EPA Clean Water Act case.

With grain export prices up at least 70% from February 2010, UN Food & Agriculture Organization Trade & Market Division Director David Hallam warns “Unexpected oil price spikes could further exacerbate an already precarious situation in food markets,” driving up world food prices.

Frustration dominated a Senate Appropriations hearing Wednesday focused on multi-billion-dollar waste, fraud and abuse in Department of Agriculture programs.

Senate's 91-9 vote wins two more weeks to negotiate a budget deal

Farm and conservation groups wrote senators Tuesday that H.R. 1, the House-passed bill to cut $61 billion from federal spending for the remainder of fiscal 2011, “singles out funding for agriculture and rural America for a disproportionately high cut.”

In a hard fought victory for the GOP, members of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a two-week stopgap spending resolution Tuesday that includes $4 billion in spending cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year. The overwhelming 335-91 vote came despite opposition from Minority Leader Nancy

A letter from 154 agriculture, food, conservation, and rural organizations calls on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture to reject proposed budget cuts this year and instead freeze federal discretionary spending.

A stopgap spending measure includes $4 billion in spending reductions, including the termination of $29 million in rural broadband loan subsidies. The House, Senate and White House have been unable to reach agreement on a longer-term funding bill and the current Continuing Resolution (CR) expires M

In the Washington week ahead, prospects look good for the House and Senate to agree on a two or three week Continuing Resolution (CR) to avoid the threatened March 4 federal government shutdown

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco Friday overturned a preliminary injunction that mandated destruction of biotech sugar beets planted under USDA permits.