Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, along with Congressman Dave Loebsack (IA-02) and Bruce Braley (IA-01) today introduced the bipartisan, five-year Senate farm bill in the House after the House failed last week to pass a farm bill to move on to a confer

Rural voters in the Great Plains, Midwest and Southeast believe that elected officials ignore small communities and fail to invest in their future

The Supreme Court has decided not to hear the “E15 challenge” from American Petroleum Institute and other ethanol opponents, a decision that pleases the ethanol industry.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free ‘dead zone’ to be the fourth smallest since mapping of the annual hypoxic, or oxygen-free area began in 1985.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -Topographical technology can improve conventional implementation of vegetative buffer systems in the row crop landscape, which is “not working as well as it should,” a U.S. Forest Service research scientist told a National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research (C-

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -As the House and Senate Agriculture Committees continue their investigations into the recent Peregrine financial group failure and MF Global’s loss of customer funds last year, agricultural cooperatives and small financial institutions desperate for market certainty also

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -With drought conditions burning up pastures and limiting availability of affordable feedstocks, many livestock and poultry farmers are scrambling to figure out how to stay in business. In some cases, they are already liquidating herds.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -The Food Safety Modernization Act, passed with bipartisan support in 2010 and signed into law in January 2011, was touted as a way to decrease food-borne illness outbreaks.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) failed to ensure that the soil rental rates it used for the 2010 Conservation Reserve Program signup were reasonable, the Office of Inspector General said in an audit report released Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -As hot, dry conditions persist across much of the United States, more people are wondering just how severe the damage will be? Will this drought will be as severe as 1988, which continued into 1989 and caused an estimated $60 billion in damages, or potentially worse?