Articles by Daniel Enoch

A federal judge in Wyoming ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management doesn't have the authority to establish rules over fracking on federal and Indian lands, dealing another blow to President Obama s effort to tighten environmental regulations.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has notified Congress that he plans to tap a $500 million discretionary fund to cover a projected shortfall in demand for guaranteed farm ownership loans for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, according to USDA@s Farm Service Agency, which admini

Brian Baenig, a former chief of staff to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, is joining the US Beet Sugar Association as executive vice president and will take over as president in January following the retirement of longtime President James W. Johnson.

Wheat breeders around the world now have access to the whole genome assembly for bread wheat, courtesy of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium.

Representatives of small, rural banks are pleading for Congress to ease the regulatory burden that resulted from the Dodd-Frank reforms enacted after the Great Recession.

The U.S. will export 1.9 billion bushels of corn in the year starting sept. 1, up 50 million bushels from the May forecast, USDA said today in a monthly report, as late-season heat has damaged the crop in Brazil and Argentina�s harvest has suffere

Public and private skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) should soon be able to provide more and better telemedical services after the Senate gave final congressional approval to the Rural Health Care Connectivity Act.

Citing Ðan emerging farm lending crisis,Ð eight national farm and financial organizations are urging Congress to increase funding for federally assisted farm operating loans in the fiscal year 2017 agricultural appropriations bill. Lawmakers are expected to debate and vote on tha

The Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance for voluntary sodium reduction targets for the food industry.

USDA is giving ag producers an extra 30 days to report their farm organization structures related to `Actively Engaged in Farming` determinations.