Articles by Philip Brasher

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Japan Diet, TPP, TTIP, House Education and the workforce Committee, Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, Community Eligibility Provision,National Organic Standards Board, hydroponics, Organic trade Association

Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry, Paris Climate Agreement, President Obama, Senator Jim Inhofe, USDA Undersecretary Lisa Mensah, EPA Scientific Advisory Panel, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Dow AgroSciences, Syngenta

Senate Democrats again successfully protected the Obama administration€s embattled Clean Water Act rule, defeating a GOP attempt to stop the measure the measure from being implemented should it survive court challenges. A 56-42 vote on an amendment to block the €waters of the

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, EU Negotiations, Chairman Mike Conaway, Food Tank Summit, Feed the Future, Land and Water Conservation Fund, Tracy Brunner, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Lisa Murkowski, GMO Education, Joseph Levitt

The fiscal 2017 spending bill for the Agriculture Department, Food and Drug Administration and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is headed to the House floor - and possible fights over farm programs. The House Appropriations Committee approved the measure Tuesday after adding an

The Agriculture spending bill would provide USDA $9.9 million to start monitoring antibiotic resistance on farms, a key part of the Obama administration s plan to preserve the effectiveness of the drugs in human medicine.

USDA s milestone decisions not to regulate crops developed with the popular new CRISPR gene-editing technique are raising hopes for companies looking to get new crop traits to market in less time and with less public controversy. But left unsettled is the question of whether crops prod

Agri-Pulse Daybreak covers New York primary, energy Bill, MTB, appropriations, GMO labeling and Foodtank meeting.

House appropriators narrowly agreed to block the Agriculture Department from issuing new regulations on poultry and livestock contract practices, and Republicans preserved a $3 million plan to promote consumer acceptance of biotech crops. The House Appropriations Committee, debatin

House Appropriations Committee, FDA, USDA, biotech crops, biotechnlogy, Vermont GMO labeling, Rep. Andy Harris, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Chairman Mike Conaway, Mexico, Poultry, China, Small Business Administration, Nick Paulson,