Philip Brasher

Hillary Clinton, FBI,Senate, Richard Burr, Roy Blunt, Secretary Tom Vilsack, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Commerce Department, USDA Chief Economist Rob Johansson, China, Brazil, Canadian-EU trade agreement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudea

Hillary Clinton looks to be a potential champion of agricultural biotechnology who already has a basic understanding of the arguments for genetic engineering, according to private comments she made during the primary campaign.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, cage free eggs, GIPSA Rules, Office of Management and Budget, National Pork Producers Council, Diane Sullivan, Citizens Against Food Tax Injustice, Question 3, Forrest Lucas, Protect the Harvest, Food and Drug Admin

Presidential Debate, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, supreme Court, election results, immigration, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Kathleen Merrigan, Tom Vilsack, Sam Clovis, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, spending bills, EPA, RFS rule, NCBA

The Obama administration is teeing up a series of major regulations that can be implemented as political appointees head out the door or, in some cases, handed off in a form ready to be finalized by a new Hillary Clinton administration, if she€s elected.

Activists who say they want to raise labor standards on farms are hoping to emulate the success that the animal welfare movement has had in getting food companies and retailers to require farms to change production practices on livestock and poultry operations. The jury is still out on the lab

Presidential Debate, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Sam Clovis, Charles Herbster, Kathleen Merrigan, Tom Vilsack, Cathy Burns, Matteo Renzi, Sally Jewell, Ertharin Cousin, John Podesta, Senator Tim Kaine, Speaker Paul Ryan, Cuba, Russia

The Agriculture Department is advancing a revised set of new rules to tighten regulations on contracting practices in the livestock and poultry industries. Three rules, which the department is calling the Farmer Fair Practices Rules, were sent Friday to the Office of Management and Bud

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, Sara Wyant, GIPSA, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, EQUIP, CSP, Pecans, Cotton, Gary Black, Gerald Long, Environmental Defense Fund, David Festa, Michael Pollan, New York Times, World Food Prize, Borlaug

Donald Trump, Trump agriculture talking points, immigration, Representative Rodney Davis, Tsosie Lewis, Governor Dennis Daugaard, Senator John Thune, Deb Fischer, Food Policy Action, Rod Blum, Scott Garrett, David Valadao, Ken Cook