Articles by Philip Brasher

Cotton growers seek relief from limits on marketing loan gains

Farmers this spring seeded less than 89 million acres of corn this spring, the fewest since 2010, and slashed cotton acreage by 18 percent, the Agriculture Department says. Soybeans were more popular, as was sorghum. Farmers planted a record 85.1 million acres of soybea

Lawmakers are raising concerns that the avian influenza outbreak could threaten supplies of human vaccines and possibly spread to people through swine.

President Obama signed into law a trade promotion bill that ensures new agreements can get through Congress without risk of amendment, but he warned that it would take "tough negotiations" to wrap up the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership,

The Obama administration°s new definition of the °waters of the United States° regulated by the Clean Water Act will be formally published on Monday and will take effect Aug. 28. The administration publicly released the final WOTUS rule in May but waited until Friday, af

This congressional struggle over the future of country-of-origin labeling of meat hinges on the same issue it always has: What does it mean to be a product of the United States? The House voted overwhelmingly to repeal the law in the wake of a final ruling by World Trade Organizati

The House cleared away another key trade item off its to-do-list, providing final congressional approval to an extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance programs. The renewal of TAA was originally included in a trade promotion bill but was removed after House Democrats stalled the c

The Senate has cleared a trade promotion bill that will give President Obama the authority he says he needs to wrap up trade agreements 11 Pacific Rim nations and the European Union. The 60-38 vote to give final congressional approval to the fast-track bill (HR 2146) w

Country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork would be converted to a voluntary program, under a draft bill proposed as an alternative to outright repeal. The legislation proposed by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., would continue to require COOL for lamb, whic

TPA done, attention on the TPP