Articles by Aarian Marshall

Despite the steady downpour in the nation’s capital today, USDA’s annual Farmers Market opened unabated, with (indoor) remarks from department officials and local celebrities rounding out the festivities

The Obama Administration will push for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), United States Trade Representative (USTR) nominee Michael Froman reported today during a Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing.

Connecticut became the first state in the United States to pass a genetically modified organism labeling law on Monday, when the measure succeeded in the state’s House, 134-3

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 – The European Union finally got its day in court yesterday – or maybe just its day at the CropLife America Annual Policy Meeting, where Irish diplomat, scientist and farmer John Dardis defended the EU for its stringent biotechnology and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) sta

A little more than a month after Senate Appropriations Committee members helped USDA to avoid furloughing meat inspectors, the issue of inspection has reared its head in that committee once again

The Elvis of E. Coli, the Sinatra of Salmonella, member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee – Dr. Carl Winter goes by many names

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) “caved” on federal legislation regulating cage size, Joe Miller, general counsel at Rose Acre Farms, said yesterday at the annual Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit in Arlington, Va

A House Oversight and Government Reform Committee retread ground yesterday, as Postmaster General Patrick Donohue once again asked Congress to rescue the Postal Service its “dire” financial situation.

President Obama’s budget is making waves in the foreign aid world, where his Wednesday proposal to move toward local procurement and away from monetization has drawn both praise and criticism

The Postal Service no longer plans to cut Saturday service, the quasi-governmental agency announced yesterday