Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

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.

A new study of global food supplies documents for the first time what its authors say has been long suspected: over the last five decades: human diets around the world have grown ever more similar by a global average of 36 percent and the trend shows no signs of slowing. And that reduction in d

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2014 – The House approved today, by voice vote, legislation (H.R. 311) that aims to ensure that the EPA's spill prevention, control and countermeasure (SPCC) regulations adequately recognize the low risk of spills on U.S. farms and ranches.

Help Agri-Pulse celebrate Ag Day’s 41st anniversary and our 10th year in business. Please join Agri-Pulse on Monday, March 24 for our Farm to Fork Politics discussion, where United States Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden will join

More than 50 senators recently wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack urging the government to push back against efforts to restrict how U.S. companies market cheese and other foods.