Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

The National Grain and Feed Association today submitted a statement to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging that a one-hour pause in open-outcry pit and electronic trading be implemented surrounding the release of the department’s agricultural statistical reports.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released its FAO Food Price Index this week, which fell for the third consecutive month in June 2012, dipping 1.8 percent from May to its lowest level since September 2010. The four-point drop in June brought the index to 201 points from a

President Obama’s re-election campaign is soliciting supporters to enlist in a “Rural Americans

The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC) today expressed its strong opposition to an amendment that Representative Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., intends to introduce during next week’s markup of the farm bill that would change current sugar programs in such a way as to effectively eliminate the p

A letter from 14 state poultry associations to the House Agriculture Committee today asks for the renewal of the Rural Energy for America Program and mandatory funding to pay for it.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued its final ruling on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) today, upholding much of the initial ruling from November 2011, which the U.S. Trade Representative appealed in March 2012.

Environmental groups are ratcheting up the pressure on EPA to move on a legal petition they filed in March urging the immediate suspension of a pesticide the groups say is linked to colony collapse disorder (CCD)

Farmers planted an estimated 96.4 million acres of corn this spring, up 5 percent from last year and the highest planted acreage in the United States since 1937 when an estimated 97.2 million acres were planted, according to a USDA report released today. Growers expect to harvest 88.9 million acres

American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman issued a statement today regarding his concerns of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, which includes issuing the individual mandate as a tax.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a lawsuit in federal court charging hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, who funded the proposed and now bankrupt LightSquared network, with market manipulation, preferential treatment to several big investors and borrowing cash from his hedge f