Articles by Philip Brasher

Leaders of the House Agriculture Committee are raising concerns about the Obama administration@s negotiations with the shipping industry to get its support for converting more food aid to cash assistance. In letters to the Agriculture Department, U.S. Agency for International D

Ag appropriations bill: On the slow route to nowhere?

Spending bill would curb dietary recommendations

Obama Administration presses ahead on Food for Peace reforms

RFS support may be tested in Congress this week

An appeals court has upheld the Environmental Protection Agencyàs limits on pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay, while acknowledging that the regulations will likely hurt farmers. The American Farm Bureau Federation, with backing from several commodity groups and the Nation

House appropriators are pushing back on the Food and Drug AdministrationÀs efforts to remove trans fats from the food supply and reduce sodium consumption. The draft report by the House Appropriations Committee that accompanies the fiscal 2016 Agriculture spending bill urges FDA to clarif

Lawmakers head into the final stretch before the August recess with a bunch of unfinished business, including fiscal 2016 appropriations bills, highway funding and the country-of-origin labeling law for meat.

EPA�s Clean Water rule triggers flood of lawsuits

Cost estimate boost in Farm Bill