Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

Over 700 farmers, business leaders, and dignitaries from around the globe gathered in the Iowa Capitol last night to honor an Israeli-American scientist who pioneered an innovative way of bringing water to crops in arid and dry-land regions.

Women farmers in a pending gender discrimination lawsuit with USDA voiced their concerns about problems with the claims program that USDA kicked off on September 24, 2012.

Dow AgroSciences LLC announced today that Canadian regulatory authorities approved the Enlist™ corn trait and the Enlist™ soybean trait, which are part of the company’s Enlist Weed Control System

National Ag Day is set for March 19 and the Agriculture Council of America has announced National Ag day activities in Washington, DC.

A young Indian social scientist whose research on groundwater resources in agriculture led to major policy changes benefiting thousands of farmers in West Bengal was presented the “Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation” at the newly renovated

CME Group, a leading derivatives marketplace, and the Kansas City Board of Trade, the leading futures market for hard red winter (HRW) wheat, today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which CME Group will acquire the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT).

DuPont announced an enhancement to the Global Food Security Index today that assesses the impact of changes in global food prices at the national level.

The Global Harvest Initiative, a private sector policy voice for agricultural productivity growth, released its 2012 GAP Report® on Wednesday at the World Food Prize.

The already-shaky concept of trying to calculate indirect land-use change (ILUC) in the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions in biofuels policy may take another hit in Europe.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney increased a strong lead among rural voters in swing states, according to a National Rural Assembly poll released today.