Agri-Pulse staff

People’s weight – not just population size – should be taken into account when planning how to deal with increasing pressure on the planet’s dwindling resources

Environmental Working Group released its “Dirty Dozen” list of produce with popular fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads on Tuesday. According to their research, as late as 2010, 68 percent of food samples had detectable pesticide residues.

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gases will have dire economic consequences for farmers and ranchers, according to Pennsylvania Farm Bureau President Carl Shaffer.

WASHINGTON, June 19,2012 -Mike Breen, Vice President of the Truman National Security Project and Operation Free Veteran, emphasized the job-creating importance of developing new clean energy sources in testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee today.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that $8.4 million in financial assistance is available to support 23 new partnership projects in several Mississippi River Basin states under USDA's Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA approved a loan guarantee of $25 million to Myriant Corporation to help construct a bio-based production facility in Lake Providence, La.

A new National Research Council report requested by Congress about the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas, concludes that an updated risk assessment of the facility makes significant improvements, but does not “adequately include overall risks.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today gave the final approval to move forward with the sale of E15 ethanol blends. In response to the approval, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said “the last significant federal hurdle has been cleared to allow consumers to buy fuel containing up t

A dozen members of the House delivered a bipartisan letter to the House Agricultural Committee asking for reauthorization of key energy title programs as the committee prepares to take up the Farm Bill.

The Obama Administration announced today it would suspend the deportation of young people brought to the United States illegally.