Philip Brasher

The Senate Agriculture Committee has delayed action on a child nutrition bill with negotiations still continuing. The committee was scheduled to mark up a replacement of the expiring Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act on Thursday but will instead turn to three less controversial bills,

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts is trying to reach a sweeping agreement on child nutri-tion programs in time to move a reauthorization bill this week.

Farm groups and biotech companies want the White House to press China harder to accelerate its approval of new genetically engineered crops. Industry groups have sent a pair of letters to President Obama to make the issue a priority during the upcoming visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping

Republican presidential candidates need to get beyond the �meat cleaver� approach to immigration policy that has dominated the campaign so far, says House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway. �What I hear Donald Trump saying is that he

The Food and Drug Administration has finalized the first major food safety regulations under a sweeping federal law that�s intended to prevent illnesses linked to both domestic and foreign-produced foods. The first two rules, which were tweaked to address a

Milk producers are becoming increasingly dependent on immigrant workers, who now account for half the labor on dairy farms, a study shows. Nearly 77,000 immigrant worked on dairy farms in 2014 out of about 150,000 workers nationwide, according to a Texas A&M study for t

The mixed court rulings on the Obama administrations new Clean Water Act rule (WOTUS) should motivate more Democrats to support repealing the measure or at least blocking its implementation, says Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Despite an improving economy, there was no meaningful improvement in household food security again last year. USDA says 14 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2014 - meaning that they had difficulty at some point during the year getting adequate nutrition. Ther

A long list of major agriculture and food issues will be on the agenda in Washington this fall, including GMO labeling, child nutrition, the àwaters of the U.S.à rule and the country-of-origin labeling law for meat.

Unless Congress intervenes, the new price support programs created by the 2014 farm bill -- Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage -- will be subject to sequestration cuts just like the direct payments they replaced, according to USDA.