Articles by Philip Brasher

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

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