Articles by Spencer Chase

An amendment to the House highway bill that would have allowed for heavier loads of livestock on the nation�s highways failed to receive congressional approval Wednesday after another truck weight limit amendment met a similar fate Tuesday night.

Retaliatory tariffs from the country-of-origin labeling dispute could be here before Christmas, according to the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, but timing of legislative action to address the issue might have to wait.

Although the last detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the U.S. was almost five months ago, USDA officials remain on watch for a potential winter wave of the deadly bird virus.

A new Rabobank study says that improvement in the global pork trade heading into the new year will be gradual, but evident as countries recover from a clear mismatch between supply and demand across the globe.

The Department of Agriculture on Thursday announced plans to prioritize $5.6 billion in funding over the next two years to help beginning farmers and ranchers get started.

The Senate has approved a short-term highway bill extension that included a delay in the mandated implementation of positive train control (PTC), averting a potential shutdown of rail networks across the country.

A USDA plan to beef up oversight of test plots of genetically engineered wheat @ put together after unauthorized GE wheat was found in fields in Oregon and Montana @ is meeting opposition from both sides of the issue.

Weaver Popcorn, the second-largest popcorn supplier, announced a plan to drastically reduce the amount of neonicotinoids involved in the production of the popcorn it sells.

A group of northwest Texas farmers is working to do more with less with water from the Ogallala Aquifer and hopeful that their efforts - through the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation - will slow the draw from the 225,000 square-mile underground water body.