Stewart Doan

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) provided an update Wednesday on its ongoing epidemiological investigation into the California dairy cow infected with BSE.

The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 16-5 to advance a new five-year farm bill that promises to save taxpayers over $23 billion via reforms to farm, conservation and nutrition programs.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the nation’s fourth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an adult dairy cow from central California.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-OK, will recommend that budget reconciliation cuts required by the House Budget Resolution be met entirely by reforms, elimination of loopholes and the reduction of waste, fraud and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

The House Agriculture Committee scheduled a vote for April 18 on a package of policy changes to current U.S. farm law to satisfy its reconciliation directive

Farmers and ranchers will have to get a prescription from a veterinarian in order to use antibiotics in cattle

Eighty-one groups submitted a letter to U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers (KY), asking to prohibit the use of funds to implement the new National Ocean Policy (NOP).

OxFam aims to use humor to fight hunger in new television campaign

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has approved the first applications for registration of ethanol for use in making gasoline that contains up to 15 percent ethanol

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has approved the first applications for registration of ethanol for use in making gasoline that contains up to 15 percent ethanol – known as E15.