Agri-Pulse staff

A middle-income family with a child born in 2013 can expect to spend about $245,340, an overall 1.8 percent increase from 2012, according to a report released Monday.

In a letter sent today to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) asked U.S. negotiators on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to insist that Japan eliminate its tariff system for pork imports.

he National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) is asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make significant changes in its proposed rules implementing the sanitary food transportation provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA

USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) today announced that the Stacked Income Protection Plan (STAX) will be available to upland cotton producers through the federal crop insurance program beginning with the 2015 crop year.

Cargill agreed to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) at two different large oil storage facilities located in Blair, Neb., and Eddyville, Iowa.

Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman has been elected board chairman of the newly established Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research. The 15-member board chose Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum as vice chairman at the group’s inaugural meeting on Thursday.

USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan Garcia is retiring after 37 years with USDA, the agency announced today.

Consumers are paying more for their favorite candy bars despite the fact that sugar prices have remained relatively flat over the past 30 years, according to a report released today by the American Sugar Alliance (ASA) , a sugar producers group, at the 31st International Sweetener Symposium in Stow

The USDA issued a final rule that eliminates restrictions on mature market wood products and other materials in the BioPreferred Program.

USDA issued a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) today as part of its review to deregulate corn and soybean plants developed by Dow AgroSciences that are resistant to several herbicides, including 2,4-D.