Articles by Philip Brasher

Senate critics of farm programs are trying to head off an effort to use the appropriations process to provide new subsidies to cotton producers struggling to deal with depressed global prices. Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.

Food Safety Modernization Act, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Jerry Moran, WOTUS, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Chairman Pat Roberts, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Timothy Massad, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, Oxfarm America

President Obama, Global Food Security Act, Feed the Future, Mike Conaway, Senate Foreign Relations, Eric Munoz, Oxfam, National Cattleman's Beef Association, Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau, Colin Woodall, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Senate

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts released a reauthorization bill for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that would protect grain elevators and other end users from speculative position limits, but the draft tossed some more controversial provisions in a House-passed measure

Lawmakers look to get an early start this week on moving the annual spending bills, including legislation to fund USDA and FDA, and also will take long-awaited action on futures regulation and international agriculture development.

Federal Aviation Administration, renewable power tax breaks, National Biodiesel Board, Feed the Future, House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, 2017 Spending Bill, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, CFTC, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Bernie

Senate Agriculture Committee, Pat Roberts, Debbie Stabenow, child nutrition, Kevin Concannon, School Nutrition Association, CFTC Markup, GMO Issue, Campbell Soup, Kelly Johnston, Vermont, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Federal Aviation Administration, Senator John Thune, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senator Pat Roberts, GMO Labeling, Celinda Lake, Hati, Peanut Donation, First Lady Michelle Obama, White House Garden Tour,

Wisconsin Primary, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, Debbie Stabenow, Pat Roberts, Jim Inhofe, Stephen Ostroff, Dietary Guidelines, Lisa Mensah, First Lady Michelle Obama, White House Kitchen Garden

Chairman Pat Roberts, Senator Debbie Stabenow, GMO labeling, Hillary Clinton, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Bernie Sanders, Army Col. Gary LaGrange, Senator Jerry Moran, First Lady Michelle Obama, White House Kitchen Garden, Dava Newman, Cady Coleman