Daniel Enoch

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba by urging the group€s members € including some of the country€s leading ag groups and companies € to keep the press

Monsanto has agreed to pay an $80 million penalty and retain an independent compliance consultant to settle charges that it violated accounting rules and misstated company earnings as it pertained to its flagship product Roundup, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.

Anne Alonzo, who recently stepped down as administrator of USDAs Agricultural Marketing Service, has been named president and CEO of the American Egg Board, Agri-Pulse has learned.

A bipartisan group of 60 lawmakers is urging USDA to delay publishing a proposed rule for inspecting hog-slaughter facilities, saying the plan undermines food safety and worker safety as well as animal welfare.

The Government Accountability Office has issued a report that criticizes USDAàs response to the initial outbreaks of deadly Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD) in the spring of 2013, outbreaks that eventually killed millions of pigs.

Ethanol producers and the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) say they are disappointed that China has initiated anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations involving U.S. exports of distiller s dried grains (DDGS) to the Asian nation.

A day after President Obama used his State of the Union speech to urge Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership, his point man on trade was out drumming up support for the agreement in Washington.

Darci Vetter, the top agricultural negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representatives, says the longer Congress waits to take action on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the greater the potential loss for U.S. exporters and for the countryPs

Bob Stallman opened the final convention of his 16-year tenure as president of the American Farm Bureau Federation on Sunday with a passionate rallying cry against government regulations that he said were stifling farm production and innovation.

USDA`s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is reaching out to U.S. beekeepers and farmers from now through January to gather information on the number and health of honey bee colonies, honey production and stocks, and the cost to farmers of pollination servi