Agri-Pulse staff

While global investments in agricultural research increased overall in the past decade, spending in low-income countries grew only by 2 percent per year from 2000 to 2008 or stagnated or declined, according to the ASTI Global Assessment of Agricultural R&D Spending report.

Cuba announced a decree to allow farmers to lease more state-owned fallow land

The November 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report will include changes to the WASDE soybean and products table.

If consumers voted on the way their food is produced, half the women would be undecided while 40 percent of men would favor the status quo.

National FFA Organization members from all 50 states will rally for three days this week in an effort to create one million meals.

The Western United Dairymen board of directors voted Friday to advance a bill in the California legislature that would adjust whey value in California in coordination with other states.

United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk announced today the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement will enter into force on October 31, 2012.

U.S. soybean farmers, through their checkoff, support the National Tractor Pullers Association’s (NTPA) promotion of biodiesel among pulling fans.

Secretaries of agriculture for the past 50 years