Articles by Sarah Gonzalez

The members of the American Wind Energy Association met with their representatives in Congress today to ask them to extend the wind energy industry’s production tax credit, the Production Tax Credit (PTC).

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued a final rule updating the regulations on registration and compliance obligations for commodity pool operators (CPO) and commodity trading advisors (CTA) and created a subcommittee to monitor high frequency trading.

The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) found that imported pork is becoming more competitive in China as Chinese pork production costs rise

Information from the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report on corn, soybean, rice, cotton, meat, poultry, wheat and sugar. Corn exports will be 50 million bushels higher this year, according to the USDA supply and demand estimates report this morning. Soybean exports, althou

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2- Members of Congress, farm owners and agricultural program representatives filed their concerns regarding proposed, stricter rules for children working in agriculture today. The House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade examined the Departme

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division today announced that it will re-propose the portion of its regulation on child labor in agriculture interpreting the "parental exemption.” The public, including those in farming and ranching communities, criticized the farm

Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has the most Twitter followers by far of anyone on the House and Senate agriculture committees

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26- First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new partnership with Goya Foods, the largest, Hispanic-owned U.S. food company, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to promote “My Plate” or “Mi Plato.”

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25- The House Committee on Agriculture approved six bills designed to amend Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012 – The battle between the GPS industry and LightSquared, a proposed 4G-LTE network backed by ground towers and satellites that may conflict with GPS signals, continued today as LightSquared executives publicly dismissed the most recent round of interference tests.