Philip Brasher

The Senate Agriculture Committee is set to move a bipartisan bill next week to reauthorize child nutrition programs and provide some permanence to higher school meal standards that the Obama administration implemented.

In a campaign-style State of the Union (SOTU) address Tuesday night, President Obama forcefully and repeatedly pushed for action on climate change, defended immigrants, and made pitches for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ending the embargo on Cuba.

A Colorado honey exporterÐs invitation to attend President ObamaÐs State of the Union speech as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama stirred up controversy ahead of the speech.

Representatives of food and agriculture industry groups were expected to meet today at the behest of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who says he wants to find a resolution on the biotech labeling issue.

Legislation will be headed to the White House shortly that would kill the Obama administrationÐs Ðwaters of the United StatesÐ (WOTUS) rule, but President Obama is certain to veto the measure.

After completing a series of major bills in 2015, the House Agriculture Committee will be turning to more oversight work this year.

President Obama's nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration could be held up in the Senate over the issue of labeling genetically engineered salmon.

The Campbell Soup Co.says it will start labeling its products for the presence of biotech ingredients, a landmark break from the rest of the conventional food industry. Campbell said it still supported the use of genetically engineering in agriculture and said that national labeling st

The House will vote next week to kill the Obama administration s waters of the United States rule, as Republican leaders seek to make a case to voters for electing a Republican presidency.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he would decide very soon whether to provide a new subsidies to cotton growers, but he suggested that the industryÀs proposal may lack legal authority.