Articles by Daniel Enoch

Russia has lifted its blanket ban on U.S. pork, and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has approved two Smithfield plants to export the meat to the country. According to an FSIS update last week, U.S. pork suppliers must meet the requirements of USDA’s Never Fed Beta Agonist Program a

Canadian Pacific told the U.S. Surface Transportation Board today that the railroad is committed to doing its part to see that U.S. farmers in the Upper Midwest get the fertilizer they need for spring planting and that deliveries should improve as ?extreme winter weather? blamed for congestion at a

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said hog producers are now required to report outbreaks of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), in an effort to slow the spread of the disease that has killed millions of piglets since it was detected in the U.S. a year ago

A new study suggests that schools that ban chocolate milk for health reasons may be inviting some unintended – and negative – consequences.

Vermont is a step closer to becoming the first U.S. state to require food labels to say if a product was made with genetically modified crops (GMOs). A mandatory labeling bill that would take effect in July 2016 was approved today by the state Senate in a 28-2 vote.

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) yesterday ordered the Canadian Pacific and BNFS railway companies to report by Friday their plans for fertilizer delivery in the Midwest.

Members of USA Rice Federation left their annual Government Affairs Conference last week determined to keep rice front and center during any international trade talks, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Despite all the talk of Crisis in the Crimea, the political upheaval in Ukraine should have little effect on the country’s grain shipments, according to Dan Basse, the president of AgResource, the Chicago-based agricultural research and advisory firm.

National Beef Packing Co. says it is going ahead with plans to close its Brawley, Calif., processing plant despite an offer by local cattle-feeding operations of $24 million in cattle price discounts for 2014 and 2015.

Virginia has filed a brief in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its legal battle with the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) to set pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay