Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

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.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced today the withdrawal of the proposed rule dealing with children under the age of 16 who work in agricultural vocations.

The president of the National Corn Growers Association today told a House Agriculture subcommittee that "it's important to acknowledge that farm bill conservation programs have had significant positive impacts over the past several decades

With a bipartisan vote of 312-111, the House of Representatives approved Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s, R-Mo., bill to help small and rural businesses obtain loans and create jobs through revisions to the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act.