Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

The year ahead will provide challenges to red meat exports, “which will require our industry to be creative and aggressive,” said Philip Seng, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) president and CEO in reaction to statistics released by USDA and compiled by USMEF.

If average weather returns in 2013, economists at The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) expect a record 2013 corn crop and corn prices to fall by $2 per bushel.

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2013 – The Agriculture Department issued a proposed rule today that would modify the labeling provisions for muscle cut commodities covered under the U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) program.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski briefed Senate Democrats yesterday on a new version of a continuing resolution that locks in cuts required under the sequester signed by President Obama last week, but gives agencies more flexibility to transfer funding.

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2013 – Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who announced Thursday that he will not run for re-election in 2014, will be “sorely missed,” said Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) today introduced legislation eliminating a regulation that requires agriculture industry professionals to obtain a hazardous material endorsement before transporting diesel fuel.

WASHINGTON, March 7, 2013 – Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and ranking member Thad Cochran, R-Miss., (R-MS), today asked stakeholders and the public to make recommendations on the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Tra

The American Farm Bureau Federation (Farm Bureau), American Soybean Association (ASA), and the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) announced their commitment to an industry-led agreement addressing regulatory responsibilities for post-patent seed technology.

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 – More than 300 clean energy and clean transportation projects started in 2012 are expected

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 – More than 270 organizations, food businesses and farms today asked the federal government