Articles by Spencer Chase

The Department of Agriculture is offering a fresh round of funding through its ReConnect program aimed at expanding broadband availability in rural areas.

When President Joe Biden was sworn into office, the biofuels industry had a handful of campaign trail quotes in its back pocket and a fresh sense of optimism about the federal government’s governance of the biofuels mandate. So far, that optimism hasn’t been met with corresponding action.

The top Republicans on the House and Senate Ag committees are pleading with the Environmental Protection Agency to reverse its decision revoking all food tolerances for chlorpyrifos.

The Departments of Agriculture and Interior are out with a handful of new programs they say will enhance the federal government’s effectiveness in serving tribal audiences.

Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, a longtime member and former chair of the Senate Ag Committee who took a special interest in the nation’s dairy and organic policy, plans to retire at the end of his current term.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Jose Emilio Esteban as the next undersecretary for food safety at USDA, a role that would give him oversight of the FSIS programs he currently monitors as the agency’s chief scientist.

President Joe Biden has chosen Robert Califf to lead the Food and Drug Administration, which would give the cardiologist and professor a second stint at the agency's helm.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says his three-day trip to the international climate conference in Glasgow showed the importance that agriculture will play in the Biden administration’s plans to address climate change.

American cattle and hog producers are sending meat overseas at a record rate in 2021 after strong third-quarter returns charted by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.