Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced loans and grants totaling $314 million for 141 projects to build and improve water and wastewater infrastructure in rural communities.

USDAÐs Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will invest $30 million this year in 33 new projects and 40 existing projects to improve water quality in high priority watersheds in the Mississippi River Basin. The projects are aimed at reducing runoff of nutrients and se

Petroleum, natural gas and coal dominated the U.S. energy mix for more than 100 years and are still the largest sources of energy production.

Almost every year, the White House has proposed some type of crop insurance cut and farmers and the industry fought back, arguing that it is now the primary form of risk management.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that Lanon Baccam has been named USDAðs Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, overseeing the Risk Management and Farm Service agencies.

Google plans to make a major investment in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project in Northern Kenya, bringing 310 megawatts of clean energy onto Kenyaðs gridðenough to power more than two million households across the country.

The Food and Drug Administration will reopen the comment period for its Supplemental Proposed Rule for Updating the Nutrition Facts Label for a four-day period starting on Tuesday, Oct. 19.

Gas prices at the pump closely tracked the collapse of crude oil prices in the second half of 2014, but not so in 2015. Brent crude oil prices and U.S. average retail gas prices have a historical relationship that suggests that gas prices in August

USDAs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is inviting public comment on a proposed plan to strengthen oversight of field trials for genetically engineered wheat, following two recent detections of GE wheat where the plants should not have been growing. No varieties of GE wheat h

Timothy Glenn named president, DuPont Crop Protection WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2015  Timothy Glenn has been named president of DuPonts Crop Protection business effective Oct. 1, succeeding Rik Miller, whos retiring a