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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, January 09, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency�s proposed 2017 renewable volume obligations are out, kicking off a process the agency hopes to finalize by the end of November.
Federal Reserve officials and agricultural lending institutions paint a deteriorating picture of the farm economy, but the situation depends on where you farm and what your operation produces.
American diets are at a crossroads on the healthfulness of drinking whole milk and eating high-fat dairy products such as cheese, but lots of well-publicized new research suggests a big nutritional facelift for those products is in the making.
The Zika virus doesn�t present a direct threat to agriculture, but several U.S. farm and food groups are united in their support of combating the disease with genetically engineered mosquitoes.
The public comment period on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service�s proposal to remove the Yellowstone population of grizzly bear from the endangered species list closed last week after more than 5,700 comments were submitted.
An Army Corps of Engineers decision to deny a permit for a $700 million export terminal north of Seattle seems to have angered every stakeholder except the Native American tribe that claimed the project violated its rights under an 1855 treaty.
Farmers and beekeepers have worked together for generations, but widespread concern over the health of agriculture s smallest livestock has placed strains on that relationship and left some beekeepers on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. The latest evidence that commercially ra
Donald Trump, Chairman Mike Conaway, Kate English, WOTUS, Richard Ebert, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Senator Jerry Moran, Food and Drug Admnistration, Zika Virus, NASDA, Zika virus, Senator Chuck Grassley
USDA`s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced Monday $130 million in funding will be made available for education, research and Cooperative Extension projects that seek to improve plant and animal production systems.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the Forest Service and the Interior Department have done just about everything we can do to properly fund the forest management that prevents catastrophic fires now it's Congress turn to step up to the plate.
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