Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said he was “generally pleased” with the progress U.S. and European negotiators made this week during the fourth round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-IPP) talks in Brussels.

CropLife America (CLA) and the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) called for a more harmonized risk assessment framework for pesticide regulations during the fourth round of negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in Brussels.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D.-Mich., and Sen. Kay Hagan, D.-N.C., are urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to approve disaster assistance for small pork producers affected by deadly virus that is hitting pig farms across the country.

The increased production of genetically modified crops around the world has led to a higher number of incidents of low levels of GMOs being detected in traded food and feed, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) CEO Rick Tolman announced to the NCGA Corn Board earlier this week that he will retire at the end of September.

Larger global crop harvests in 2013 have contributed to a major reversal of fortunes in agricultural markets, causing grain prices and crop producer income to drop sharply and prices for cattle to reach record levels, noted the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) in a report tod

The top 21 food producing countries in the world were supported by an estimated $486 billion in agriculture subsidies in 2012, according to a new report

Nine lawmakers sent a letter today to Brigadier General John Kem of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calling on the Corps to provide Congress with information about Missouri River flood prevention plans for the spring thaw and actions the Corps has taken since the 2011 flooding to update and repair

The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) said it is concerned about reports that the Obama administration is prepared to designate the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks region in New Mexico as a National Monument. Such a designation would greatly restrict access to the 498,815-acre wate

Syngenta will not launch its Agrisure Duracade seed corn—designed to control rootworm damage—in Canada this year, although the company planned to market the product with a limited launch there as well as in the United States.