Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2013 - Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced her resignation today, leaving behind the controversy her department sparked last year when it was planning a rule to limit what types of work minors can perform on a farm.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today reminds data users that the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) will begin issuing several major USDA statistical reports at 12:00 p.m. EDT beginning on Friday, January 11, 2013.

House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., refuses to work on a new five-year farm bill until House Republican leadership commits to bringing up the legislation for a vote.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2013 – House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was re-elected today to a second term as speaker after receiving 220 “yes” votes from Republican House lawmakers.

The American Waterways Operators (AWO) and Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) released revised data on the economic impact of an effective shutdown of the Mississippi River to barge traffic in the month of January. Earlier data examined the impacts between December and January.

Farmers receive a meager share of the retail worth of the their food, according a National Farmers Union (NFU) Farmer’s Share report released today

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published last week a Notice of Intent to Renew the Charter for its Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers.