Articles by Philip Brasher

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is standing by a proposal to de-list the gray wolf as an endangered species, but shes coming under pressure from House Democrats to keep the animal under protection.

A longtime aide to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Matt Paul, is leaving USDA to manage Hillary Clintons campaign in Iowa.

The Food and Drug Administrations request for more money to enforce a series of new food safety regulations on domestic and imported foods is getting a cool reception from House appropriators.

The timetable for moving a fast-track trade negotiating bill may be slipping amid a disagreement between Senate Republicans and Democrats over the terms of the legislation. Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch said he likely canðt move the bill until after the Easter

Agri-Pulse Audio Web Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts said he plans a bipartisan overhaul of federal nutrition requirements so that poor or rural school districts as well as wealthy, urban ones can meet the meal standards.

The House Judiciary Committee has advanced a bill that would force employers to use the E-Verify system to ensure their workers can legally work in the Untied States, a requirement that farmers fear could snag their workers.

The Obama administration wonðt commit to providing Congress with recommendations for overhauling the country-of-origin labeling law for meat.

The House voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the rest of fiscal 2015, ending an attempt by conservatives to use the agencyðs spending bill to block President Obamaðs executive actions on immigration.

The fight resumes over school nutrition standards in Washington this week, with the School Nutrition Association battling Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and First Lady Michelle Obama

Sodium limits for schools would be frozen at their current limits and a whole grain requirement would be cut in half under proposed legislation that school nutrition directors will be lobbying Congress this week to pass.