Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced his leadership team for the committee.

USDA published a preliminary decision today that a soybean genetically engineered for insect resistance by Dow AgroSciences should be nonregulated.

ST. LOUIS (Feb. 27, 2014) – University of Wisconsin researcher Vince Davis estimates herbicide-resistant weeds cost U.S. farmers two

The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry will hold a hearing on March 6 to consider Timothy Massad’s nomination to serve as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

President Obama is expected to sign into law legislation (H.R. 2431) that would reauthorize the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) for five years.

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will provide close to $3 million in technical and financial assistance for interested farmers and ranchers to help improve the health of bees.

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed papers in federal district court in Honolulu to defend the County of Kaua‘i’s 2013 pesticide disclosure law.

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., the longest-serving member in the history of the Congress, announced today that he will retire at the end of his current 29th term.

The comment period for USDA’s evaluations of Dow AgroSciences’ corn and soybeans resistant to 2,4-D is extended until March 11, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today.

A new study shows proposed changes to the tax code restricting the use of cash accounting by agricultural operations would reduce agriculture’s access to capital by as much as $12.1 billion over the next four years.