Articles by Philip Brasher

Leaders of key Senate committees are asking the Obama administration to allow more time for public comment on recommendations for the 2015 dietary guidelines.

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WASHINGTON, March 10, 2015 &#-15472; Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says he wants to have legislation ready by the beginning April to provide the president with fast-track trade authority. Hatch and the committee&#-15472;s r

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to Arkansas, the third state where the virus has been reported in the Mississippi flyway, all on turkey farms.

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The new farm programs for grain and oilseed growers will pay them up to $7 billion annually over the next few years, surpassing what they would have received through the old system of direct payments, according to new forecasts released Monday.

An unusual alliance of grain processors, environmental groups and municipal water utilities wants new enrollments in the Conservation Reserve Program targeted to practices that will improve water quality and wildlife habitat. The groups are asking the Agriculture Department0s Farm Ser

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has been discovered in separate turkey flocks in Missouri, the second and third discoveries of the virus in the Mississippi flyway.