Agri-Pulse staff

Brazil’s emergence over the last two decades as a robust competitor in exports of a wide range of agricultural economies in addition to its traditional sugar and coffee – notably meat and poultry products, cotton, orange juice, grain and soybeans – is traced in exhaustive detail in a new report by

The food industry is part of the solution to helping Americans cut back on calories, not part of the problem, according to the deputy director of USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)

USDA announced last week a new round of conservation partnership projects, part of the Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI), in nine states under the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI). Producers say the investments are already paying off.

The administration issued a veto threat tonight of the House’s five-year farm bill (H.R. 1947), largely over the legislation’s proposed $20.5 billion cut to the nutrition title, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

An Arizona congressman is attempting to do legislatively what the oil industry is attempting in federal court – modify the federal Renewable Fuel Standard to lower cellulosic biofuel requirements.

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2012 -The conviction last week of a Maryland man on charges he sold some $9 million in fraudulent renewable energy credits based on biodiesel he never produced is the latest in ongoing developments that have shaken the biodiesel industry, raised question of confidence in how EPA

Those five “workshops” on competition in agriculture that USDA and the Department of Justice held around the country in 2010 generated a flood of commentary at the time and now, nearly two years later, a 24-page report from the DOJ Antitrust Division that sums it all up.

Despite strident criticism from Republicans in Congress over the U.S. military's pursuit of renewable alternative fuels for jets and vehicles, the Navy, USDA and DOE this morning announced the offer of more than $60 million in funding aimed at developing new biofuel technologies.

The House and Senate last Friday approved legislation that includes the federal surface transportation reauthorization bill, which provides an estimated $105 billion in federal funding for highway, transit and safety programs through the end of September 2014. After nine extensions, Congress narrow

While the Supreme Court deemed virtually all of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) constitutional last week, Republican leaders are still calling for full repeal and critics are questioning the legitimacy of issuing the “individual mandate” as a congressional tax. In the meantim