Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

The Obama Administration should consider a World Trade Organization (WTO) challenge to the European Union’s “unprecedented” anti-dumping duty recently imposed on U.S. ethanol producers, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators.

Agricultural leaders from the G-8 countries will begin a two-day conference in Washington on Monday to discuss policies for online global platforms that share data from publicly funded agricultural research.

A bill requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to label genetically engineered (GE) foods is introduced in Congress.

Senator John Thune, R-S.D., and Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., today introduced “sodsaver” legislation that modifies crop insurance premium assistance for insured crops grown on native sod converted to cropland.

U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton in San Francisco yesterday ordered FDA to establish a new timetable to implement regulations to carry out the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) without further delay.

When then-Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., was nominated as Secretary of State in January, political insiders and activists alike wondered whether the former presidential nominee would bring his environmentalist leanings to bear in the State Department.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced an important package of disaster assistance valued at $209 million to help farmers, land owners and communities in 12 states recover from the effects of Superstorm Sandy

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today released a notice that it has received a petition from the Monsanto Company and Forage Genetics International seeking a determination of non-regulated status of alfalfa.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) along with the Coalition for Responsible Regulation yesterday filed a petition in the United States Supreme Court challenging the EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases (GHG) endanger public health and welfare