Articles by Spencer Chase

USDA’s latest projection for net farm income for 2014 shows income dropping sharply from 2013 but not as much as previously predicted.

EPA today sent its proposed final rule for the 2014 Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) volume obligations to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where it will undergo an interagency review.

California citrus producers can once again export their products to China after a 16-month suspension, USDA announced today.

Expectations of a potentially record corn crop are bolstered by USDA’s crop progress report, which said current conditions are better than last year’s record harvest.

Several candidates vying to represent Minnesota constituents had the chance to address the public as an August 12 primary looms.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and 12 other Democratic senators sent a letter to three government agencies today asking them to provide certainty on U.S. waters that could fall under Clean Water Act regulation.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a memorandum today clarifying its authority to conduct enforcement activities involving on small farms.

Enforcing the so-called “hot goods” provision in federal minimum wage disputes – preventing a grower from shipping his fruit, for example -- has the Department of Labor (DOL) in hot water with some members of Congress.

An official with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told members of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) that the renewable fuels standard (RFS) is still important to the agency despite the delayed rollout of the 2014 standard.