Philip Brasher

Susan Combs, a former Texas agriculture commissioner and state comptroller, interviewed with Vice President-elect Mike Pence to become agriculture secretary or possible take another role in the Trump administration. Combs has the support of House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway&#

President Obama signed into law a water projects authorization bill and issued a statement cautioning agency managers to heed endangered species requirements before increasing irrigation water supplies in California€s drought-stricken Central Valley.

Agriculture secretary is a very big deal for President-elect Donald Trump and as with other cabinet positions he wants to make sure he is getting the right person for USDA, said spokesman Jason Miller.

Donald Trump, Representative Ryan Zinke, Interior Secretary, Agriculture Secretary, Wade Cowan, Charles W. Herbster, Butch Otter, Bill Flory, Heidi Heitkamp, USTR, Dan DiMicco, World Trade Organization, China, Nucor steel

President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has picked as Interior secretary first-term Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, who has bucked his GOP colleagues over public lands issues

Donald Trump, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Mitch McConnell, Packers and Stockyards Act, USDA, National Pork Producers Council, National Farmers Union, Roger Johnson, House Agriculture Committee, Senate Agriculture Committee, Chuck Grassley, Rick Perry

The Senate closed out the 114th Congress in the wee hours of last Saturday, passing a water projects bill, the last of a series of legislative achievements that will have far-reaching implications for agriculture. Topping the list was the GMO disclosure legislation approved last su

USDA, Farmer Fair Practices Rules, GIPSA, Tom Vilsack, Joel Leftwich, Representative Ryan Zinke, Interior Secretary, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Whit Fosburgh, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, League of Conservation Voters

thw Senate passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown and then gave final congressional approval to a water projects bill that includes drought relief for California farmers

A House Republican leader who represents a wheat-growing district in eastern Washington is expected to be nominated as Interior secretary in the Trump administration.