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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2015 -- California Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders in Sacramento today unveiled a $1 billion plan to help the state deal with a devastating drought now moving into its fourth year.
Some pork industry experts are expressing surprise that the latest USDA report on the nation0s hog inventory failed to show signs of herd expansion, despite months of producer profitability.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is rejecting suggestions that the Obama administration should be pushing Congress to pass so-called pfast-trackp Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the president before trying to complete major trade agreements with the European Union an
U.S. corn exports will reach 1.8 billion bushels in the 2014-2015 market year, up 50 million bushels from the February forecast, USDA said today in a monthly report.
Devry Boughner Vorwerk, the Cargill executive whoÐs leading a coalition of commodity groups and agribusinesses in a campaign to end the Cuban embargo, says Brazil and other U.S. rivals are Ðeating our lunchÐ when it comes to investing in trade with the island nation&
EPA chief Gina McCarthy went before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today to defend her agency-15440;s $8.6 billion budget request, an appearance that one senator said she probably thinks of as a -15440;dental appointment.&&
House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway and two of his subcommittee leaders wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell today expressing concerns about recommendations from a federal panel for the next set of Dietary Guidelines for Americans th
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., announced Monday that she will retire at the end of the 114th Congress in 2017, ending the longest congressional career of any woman in history.
A bipartisan group of former U.S. agriculture secretaries going back to the Carter administration is urging Congress to pass fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA)