Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson sent a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler today urging the chairman to establish a 30-day public comment period to discuss the extension of electronic commodity trading up to 22 hours per day

The United States is not sustaining its historically strong investments in biomedical research that once propelled it to global life sciences leadership, while other nations are increasing their investments in the field, stated a report released by United for Medical Research (UMR) and The Informat

Forty four senators call for farm bill floor debate in the Senate

In a letter to the House Committee on Agriculture today, Congressmen John Garamendi (Calif.) and Jerry McNerney (Calif.) and Congresswoman Lois Capps (Calif.), and 29 of their colleagues in the California Congressional Delegation detailed their priorities for the 2012 Farm Bill.

Strong farm incomes continued to fuel demand for Tenth District farmland, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s quarterly Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions.

President Obama today announced the implementation of the U.S-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Bruce Nelson today reminded producers that enrollment for the 2012 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE) ends on June 1, 2012.

President Barack Obama issued a presidential proclamation today for the 150th Anniversary of the USDA.

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012- DuPont Executive Vice President James Borel encouraged industry leaders and students to join efforts for food security this week during his address at Johns Hopkins University.

Beef Products Inc. announced it is permanently closing three plants, in Waterloo, Iowa; Garden City, Kans.; and Amarillo, Texas, due to consumer aversion to lean finely textured beef (LFTB), labeled “pink slime” in media reports.