Agri-Pulse staff

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, along with 42 other conservation organizations, asked House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a letter Tuesday to pass a new five-year farm bill “with the best conservation measures possible”

Today’s USDA Crop Production report issued by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) said corn production, forecast at 10.7 billion bushels, is the lowest production in the United States since 2006. This forecast is raised 19 million bushels from October estimates.

The retail cost of menu items for a classic Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings increased less than 1 percent this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

More than 500 poultry trade associations and businesses asked Congress to “move quickly” in the days ahead to approve legislation enacting Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Russia.

A new coalition, focused on the right to know whether or not foods are genetically engineered, today denounced the millions of dollars poured into anti-Prop 37 efforts by major corporations

House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today urged House Republican Leaders to bring the Agriculture Committee’s five-year farm bill to the floor for a vote in the lame duck session, opposing any extension of the bill.

National agriculture organizations congratulated the President on his reelection today in a series of statements released this morning

Members of the Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports strongly urged U.S. House of Representatives leadership to take action this year on a new five-year Farm Bill in a letter dated Nov. 2, 2012.

The publication put out its “2012 Top Lobbyists” yesterday, and the decidedly unscientific list includes some interesting agricultural players – and omits some others.

Farmers will pay significantly more for the seed they'll plant in 2013 but make up for it with higher returns on their investment, predicts a Purdue University agricultural economist.