Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding $6 million to universities and cooperative state extension services to develop online decision tools and other materials and train experts to educate producers about several key farm bill pr

The biofuels industry is dismissing as “deeply flawed” a University of Nebraska-Lincoln study that claims using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline.

More than 1,000 stakeholders are gathering in Austin, Texas, this week for the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, an event that organizers say will build on a growing effort to source local food for cafeterias in schools, hospitals and other institutions.

U.S. negotiators appear to be running into a stone wall in their bid to open up Europe to genetically modified crops (GMOs) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released over the weekend says that the “estimates of global land use change (LUC) are highly uncertain, unobservable, unverifiable and dependent on assumed policy, economic contexts and inputs.”

While a majority of Americans continue to support the FDA’s labeling policy for food produced through biotechnology, the number of those opposed to the policy has increased since 2012, according to the 2014 International Food Information Council survey on “Consumer Perceptions of Food Technology.”

The United Nations in partnership with a government funded agency in the United Kingdom has released a four-part plan to reduce food waste, which it says amounts to almost $50 billion a year just in the U.S. Globally, about a third of the food produced annually, or some 1.3 billion tons, is wasted.

The South Dakota Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from television network ABC challenging a lower court’s refusal to throw out Beef Products Inc.’s (BPI) lawsuit.

This year, Memorial Day celebrations could come with a high price tag. Extreme weather and disease outbreak have caused price increases in barbecue goods beef and pork.

Know a leader or innovator in agriculture or an organization supportive of women in the industry? It’s time to submit nominations for consideration for the Demeter Award of Excellence, which acknowledges the outstanding achievements of women in the ag sector.