Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

USDA announced that Kevin Shea is officially appointed as Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today.

Fifteen of the 20 members of the Senate Agriculture Committee urged the Obama Administration today to scrutinize the proposed sale of Smithfield Foods to China’s Shuanghui International for its potential impact food security, food safety and biosecurity and safeguarding intellectual property.

An amendment that would eliminate the so-called “supply management” provisions of a new dairy program is sure to ignite fireworks in Wednesday’s House Agriculture Committee farm bill markup.

Emotions will be running high when the 46 members of the House Agriculture Committee gather Wednesday morning to debate and amend the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM). With more than one-third of these lawmakers working on their first farm bill, members and staff met Monda

WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 – United States Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman was easily confirmed by the Senate today, 93-4.

Three distinguished scientists — Marc Van Montagu of Belgium, and Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley of the United States — were today named the winners of the 2013 World Food Prize during a ceremony at the U.S. State Department, where Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the keynote address

The 2013 edition of FAO's Statistical Yearbook released today sheds light on agriculture's contribution to global warming, trends in hunger and malnutrition and the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends.

Wouldn’t it be nice to slice a juicy apple and not worry about the browning that could occur shortly afterwards? Most Americans might agree, but he apple industry is divided over whether or not biotechnology should be used to address this issue.

The prospects of a carbon tax being introduced in Congress next year are surfacing, some analysts say, though there is considerable debate over how benefits from the levy would be applied.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to “go back and do its homework” on how its 2011 service reform order will affect broadband in rural areas, according to National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Senior Vice President of Policy Michael Romano.