Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

A group of more than 40 farm groups and agricultural companies sent a letter to House and Senate agricultural appropriations leaders supporting increases in the President Barack Obama0s FY 2016 budget for honey bee research activities.

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2015 0 The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) today announced it work to boost market demand for corn through some key staffing changes within the organization.

A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the Department of Agriculture to increase signup efforts in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to keep enrollment near acreage caps established in the 2014 farm bill.

Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and John Boozman, R-Ariz., introduced a bill today that would allow banks to finance agricultural exports sent to Cuba, helping to open up Cuban markets to American farmers and ranchers.

C.S. Prakash, director of the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee University in Alabama, will receive the 2015 Borlaug CAST Communication Award from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Oct. 4 in a World Food Prize ceremony in Iowa&

The presence of salmonella resistant to antimicrobials in meat sold in U.S. grocery stores is continuing to decrease since its peak in 2009, according to two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports released today.

The Department of Agriculture confirmed nine new cases of the H5N2 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) today including the first instance of the disease in Iowa.

WASHINGTON, April 14  USDAs Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has received three alternative proposals for a federal milk marketing order for California, all in response to a request for an FMMO from California Dairies Inc., Dairy Farmers of America and Land

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza (HPAI) has now been found in 11 states following USDA confirmation of a case in Wisconsin.

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is asking Hillary Clinton to support mandatory GMO labeling.