Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and the Partnership for a New American Economy today released a new ad calling on Congress to pass immigration reform.

John Padalino pointed to significant progress toward providing rural America with high-speed Internet access

Pilgrim’s Pride, the nation’s second largest poultry integrator, said today that it has agreed to buy all poultry facilities in Mexico from Tyson Foods

A National Pork Producers Council officer is being held in a Washington jail after being arrested today on a firearms violation outside the Cannon House Office Building near the U.S. Capitol.

A vote on whether to renew presidential “fast-track” Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) likely will be delayed until after the lame duck session of Congress, according to two House members.

USDA has selected 36 energy facilities in 14 states to accept biomass deliveries supported by the Biomass Crop Assistance Program

Scott O’Malia is resigning from his position as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission effective Aug. 8.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today approved a soybean genetically engineered to tolerate exposure to the herbicides glufosinate and mesotrione. Syngenta and Bayer CropScience developed the seed.

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman is offering an optimistic outlook on the sixth round of negotiations for the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnershipn (T-TIP), which ended today in Brussels, but he offered no specifics.

Senators Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., introduced S. 2601 today, a bill that would strike down a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulation they say is overly burdensome on farmers and ranchers who rely on the futures market to hedge their risks.