Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

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.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16, 2012–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack awarded Pennsylvania State University a five-year research grant today valued at roughly $10 million to develop biomass supply chains for the production of liquid transportation and aviation biofuels in the Northeast.

Several Republican members of Congress took issue with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) implementation of the “swaps definitions” rules last week, while the CFTC issued several notices exempting certain entities from registering as swap dealers.

The American Soybean Association (ASA) reached out to President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for each candidate’s points of view on issues critical to soybean farmers.

A U.S. District Court has ruled that the American Farm Bureau Federation has a right to join in a lawsuit over the breadth of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate poultry and livestock farms under the Clean Water Act

The U.S. dairy market can no longer depend on predictable market cycles that were the custom from the 1990s through the mid-2000s, Rabobank’s Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory group said in an industry note published to clients Wednesday.

U.S. corn production is slightly lowered this month, but down 13 percent from its 2011 levels, while U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2012/13 are lowered 44 million bushels, according to the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) and Crop Production reports released by the USDA