Articles by Spencer Chase

The Biden administration is fielding a steady stream of requests for emergency action to allow for summertime sales of E15, but those calls are coming up against the realities of the fuel supply chain as demonstrated by the actions of a pro-biofuel company.

The Biden administration has no plans to buy or sell any sugar through the Feedstock Flexibility Program in the current fiscal year.

President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 includes a $2.6 billion, or 9%, increase for USDA with many of the same themes of the first budget he proposed a year ago.

A bipartisan group of senators has rolled out an updated piece of legislation that they hope will solve price discovery issues for beef producers. But the new legislation includes language that has already elicited opposition from some of the nation's leading farm groups.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says it’s far too early to tell how much impact the war in Ukraine will ultimately have on consumers and global food supplies.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan has asked the agency's ag advisory committee to evaluate EPA's policies and programs "at the nexus of agriculture and climate change.”

The federal government is in search of individuals interested in participating in a new commission tasked with addressing the nation’s wildfires.

The annual gathering of some of the most recognizable commodity groups in ag policy was perhaps as notable for what it didn’t include as what it did.

Farm groups and their Capitol Hill champions calling for action to allow year-round sales of E15 as a way to lessen the blow of rising gas prices got a signal — albeit a very noncommittal one — Tuesday that the White House was open to the idea.

Amid growing concerns about the impact of the war in Ukraine, the G7 ag ministers have joined the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in urging countries not to protect their own food supplies by restricting exports.