Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank today announced the appointment of 37 private-sector representatives to the Secretary’s newly re-chartered Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) Advisory Committee during the group’s initial meeting at the Department of Commerce

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2013 – The potential market for U.S. organic products in the European Union could be worth about $50 million a year with opportunities in vegetables, fresh fruit, dried fruits

The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to consider a nearly four-year-old petition from dairy trade associations to allow the use of “any safe and suitable sweetener as an optional ingredient” in milk and 17 other dairy products.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2013 – A group of bipartisan senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., introduced legislation that would remove

Senator Mike Johanns, R-Neb., announced he will not seek re-election in 2014. A former Secretary of Agriculture under President George W. Bush and Governor of Nebraska from 1999 to 2005, Johanns will retire after serving one term in the U.S. Senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2013 – Two Republican senators recently introduced legislation aiming to block Environmental Protection Agency waivers

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a four-week general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2013 – Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee ranking member Thad Cochran, R-Miss., and two farm organizations today criticized

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., issued the following statement today on a new report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which continues to include federal oversight of food safety as “high risk” to the economy and public health and safety

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2013 – A Senate Democratic proposal to avoid looming across-the-board federal cuts, known as sequestration, includes the elimination