Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

Implementation of legislation (H.R. 1003) that would require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to quantify the costs and benefits of future regulations and orders would cost $28 million to implement over the 2014-2018 period, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the award of $5.3 million in conservation innovation grants to several universities and research groups to develop ways to help producers adapt to drought.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y, yesterday announced a host of new dairy initiatives aimed at protecting New York's small dairy farmers

More moisture in a warmer atmosphere due to increasing greenhouse gases will make extreme precipitation events more intense, according to a newly-published study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., yesterday announced a host of new dairy initiatives aimed at protecting New York’s small dairy farmers

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2013 - USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will provide an estimate of U.S. milk production each month through September 2013, which is the end of Federal Fiscal Year 2013, the agency announced today. NASS will use various sources of administrative data to e

USDA and FDA announce today a new program to certify processed eggs and egg products for export, in hopes of providing new opportunities for U.S. food exporters.

As part of the BioPreferred Program, USDA finalized eight new product categories for the preferred federal procurement program.

Critics of the close relationship between National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Beef Board will be disappointed by the findings of a new USDA Inspector General's report, which finds the two organizations are carrying out the $52 million beef checkoff program according to the law and

Biotechnology and a beef cattle disorder known as BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) are among the most common issues used by foreign countries to build unscientific barriers for U.S. exports, according to a Report on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Barriers to Trade released today by the Unit