Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

The House Agriculture Committee updated its 2012 Farm Bill hearing schedule yesterday.

The nation's 100 largest agriculture cooperatives reported near-record revenue of $118 billion in 2010, USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager announced today.

Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz resigned from his position after a Republican Senator released controversial comments he made in 2010 about EPA’s procedures.

Domino’s Pizza shareholders last Wednesday rejected – by a majority vote of 80 percent – a resolution from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) requiring its pork suppliers to stop the use of gestation stalls.

House Agriculture Committee leaders helped introduce legislation in the House today to halt an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidance that attempts to expand federal power under the Clean Water Act.

Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting grant applications to assist small, socially disadvantaged agricultural producers and cooperatives in rural areas to spur job creation

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service released an update on the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) detection announced earlier this week with additional information about the history and age of the infected animal.

According to the United Fresh, the Senate Agriculture Committee’s 2012 Farm Bill “answers the call over the last year to continue to build on the investments made in the 2008 Farm Bill.”

A bipartisan amendment that would add some $800 million in mandatory funding to farm bill energy title programs was adopted by the Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday.