Articles by Philip Brasher

Donald Trump, Abel Maldonado, Monsanto, Bayer, Hugh Grant, Werner Baumann, Bruce Rastetter, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CFTC, Mike Conaway, Dodd-Frank, Roger Marshall, Tim Huelskamp, Rex Tillerson, Enrique Pena Nieto

President-elect Donald Trump has made clear he plans to make good on his campaign promises to undo major parts of President ObamaÐs regulatory agenda. But that could be heavy lifting for the executive branch, requiring a time-consuming notice-and-comment process that c

A change in House budgetary rules could make it easier for states or local governments to gain control of federal lands. The new rule, pushed by Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop, would mean that transfers of federal lands to local and state governments would no longer require a sp

President-elect Donald TrumpÐs search for an agriculture secretary drags on. His inauguration is just nine days away and there has been mostly silence from the Trump transition on the search process over the past week. Speculation abounded last week that former Georgia Gov. So

Donald Trump, Sonny Perdue, Robert Aderholt, Javier Palomarez, Abel Maldonado, Andrew Pudzer, Debbie Stabenow, Labor Department, Pat Roberts, Ronald Regan, Robert Lighthizer, conservation linkage, Kevin Paap, Jimmy Panetta, Sam Farr

Farmers and ranchers continue their wait for President-elect Donald Trump's agriculture secretary nominee,

Donald Trump, Kip Tom, Chuck Conner, Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence, Jim Banks, Scott Pruitt, Chuck Grassley, Pat Roberts, Joni Ernst, EPA, RFS, Secretary Tom Vilsack, Margin Protection Program, Jim Mulhern, U.S. Dairy Export Council

Chairman Pat Roberts, Sean Spicer, Sonny,Perdue, Scott Pruitt, RFS, John Thune, Rhea Suh, Natural Resources Defense Council, Rex Tillerson, Ryan Zinke, Rick Perry, David Goldston, CFTC, Mike Conaway, Dan Newhouse, Genscape, RINs

Donald Trump takes office in just over two weeks and we still don0t know who his agriculture secretary is going to be. Last week, it appeared that Trump planned to select a Hispanic for the post, either former Texas Rep. Henry Bonilla or former Texas A&M University Presiden

Trump filled the last major trade position in his administration on Tuesday by announcing that trade lawyer Robert Lighthizer would become U.S. Trade Representative. Lighthizer, who served in USTR during the Reagan administration, is known for pursuing trade actions against Chi