Agri-Pulse staff

USDA is making $350 million available to help landowners protect and restore key farmlands, grasslands and wetlands across the nation.

Dairy producers who have not yet enrolled for 2016 coverage under USDAPs Margin Protection Program have until Nov. 20 to make their annual elections.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is leading a group of Democratic lawmakers to Cuba this week. Vilsack will be accompanied on the trip that starts Wednesday and ends Saturday by Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Reps. Terri Sewell of Alabama, Suzan DelBene of Washington an

Last week, the crop insurance industry narrowly averted a $3 billion cut when House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway struck a deal with Republican leaders shortly before a final vote on a two-year budget bill. But some lawmakers are still pushing for cuts in crop insurance.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced loans and grants totaling $314 million for 141 projects to build and improve water and wastewater infrastructure in rural communities.

USDAÐs Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will invest $30 million this year in 33 new projects and 40 existing projects to improve water quality in high priority watersheds in the Mississippi River Basin. The projects are aimed at reducing runoff of nutrients and se

Petroleum, natural gas and coal dominated the U.S. energy mix for more than 100 years and are still the largest sources of energy production.

Almost every year, the White House has proposed some type of crop insurance cut and farmers and the industry fought back, arguing that it is now the primary form of risk management.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that Lanon Baccam has been named USDAðs Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, overseeing the Risk Management and Farm Service agencies.

Google plans to make a major investment in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project in Northern Kenya, bringing 310 megawatts of clean energy onto Kenyaðs gridðenough to power more than two million households across the country.