Articles by Daniel Enoch

Americans will devour about 1.25 billion chicken wings on the unofficial national holiday, when the Seattle Seahawks take on the Denver Broncos for the Lombardi Trophy.

Representative Collin Peterson, the ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, is taking a step or two back from a report that he and House Speaker John Boehner were close to a compromise on a dairy provision that is holding up agreement on a long-term farm bill

Restaurant industry sales will jump 3.6 percent in 2014 to a record $683.4 billion, as the economy improves and consumers release some pent-up demand, according to a National Restaurant Association forecast

An agricultural economist at Ohio State University has some words of caution for U.S. farmers.

Unsold U.S. corn supplies before the 2014 harvest will total 1.631 billion bushels, the USDA said today in a report. That’s down 9 percent from the December estimate while almost double a year earlier, after farmers harvested the biggest crop ever

The Senate has unanimously passed legislation allowing veterinarians to treat animals with controlled substances beyond their clinics

Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, will be one of the featured speakers at the USDA’s annual Agricultural Outlook Forum next month in Arlington, Virginia.

A New Mexico judge has extended his injunction blocking Valley Meat Co. from starting horse slaughter operations until at least Jan. 13

The lawyer for a New Mexico meat company says the business could begin slaughtering horses as early as next week should it prevail today in a judicial hearing in Santa Fe.

There’s some good news for South Dakota ranchers whose livestock herds were devastated by an October blizzard. A fund aimed at helping the ranchers has raised $3 million, three times as much as expected, according to a FoodMarket.com report