Agri-Pulse staff

The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) spearheaded a pair of letters to the leaders of the congressional agriculture committees urging that they build upon the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provisions adopted by the House Agriculture Committee when resuming consideration of a new five-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2012 – House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today announced four new

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., named the five subcommittee chairmen for the 113th Congress.

Members of the House Agriculture Committee from the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee today sent a letter to U.S. financial regulators regarding the impending December 31 cross-border implementation deadline of the Dodd-Frank Act.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2012 - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) today urged the House leadership to include the farm bill in its “final list of things to be done” by the end of the year.

The Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC) released a progress report today on the development of the cellulosic biofuels industry timed on the five-year anniversary of the signing of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) remained hopeful today, despite dwindling congressional time, that negotiators could complete work on the farm bill before the end of the year.

Meeting several times over the last few days, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, made progress toward a compromise on spending cuts and revenue increases to address the “fiscal cliff.”

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., supported an amendment introduced today by Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., to the Hurricane Sandy disaster aid bill that would extend livestock disaster assistance for one year.

The Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC) petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday to establish dicamba residue tolerances for several food crops, claiming tolerances should be established before pending applications are approved for dicamba tolerant crops.