Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

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.

As federal regulations for agricultural nutrient runoff build, agricultural producers say they need to find consistent and sustaining methods to address government commitments to environmental standards under legislation like the Clean Water Act.

USDA’s inspector general dismissed allegations by an organic food activist group that the Agricultural Marketing Service has improperly approved common food additives for use in organic food and that its advisory board is illegally dominated by “corporate” members.

For the first time, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has put the Obama Administration firmly behind a dairy supply-limiting system in the farm bill making its way through Congress. If critics want to strip the feature from the bill, they have an obligation to propose an alternative “that doesn’

During the recent mark-up by the House Agriculture Committee of its 2012 Farm Bill proposal, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., made the case that spending reductions to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps, are not cuts, but instead are “reductions in a

Harsh, high temperatures continue to dominate much of the Corn Belt, despite rains that offered some relief in southern and eastern Wisconsin down into Ohio, USDA officials say.

Horticulture is an area treated differently between the House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill proposal and a Senate version, with the former including language that intends to speed up the approval of genetically modified crops.

The record-breaking drought sweeping most of the nation’s agricultural land should serve as a spur for Congress to pass a farm bill before the current bill’s expiration on Sept. 30, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.