Articles by Whitney Forman-Cook

USDA s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) says its plan to have a new and improved Conservation Stewardship Program up and running by January has been delayed and the CSP s new features won t be fully rolled out until the beginning of 2017.

A wild mallard duck shot by a hunter last month in Morrow County, Oregon, has tested positive for Eurasian H5 avian influenza. USDA has yet to determine the virus0 strain, or if commercial poultry flocks are in danger.

While world leaders negotiate in Paris over how to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, USDA Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden talked with members of the Senate Agriculture Committee Wednesday about how climate change threatens food security in similar ways across the globe.

Members of the NTCA-Rural Broadband Association gathered with government officials and a set of lawmakers last Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol to discuss existing interdependencies between urban and rural areas and how expanding broadband access in rural America is critical to the succes

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is appealing to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to award research funding for industrial hemp research.

The American Farm Bureau Federation�s annual Thanksgiving dinner survey found this year�s holiday feast for 10 will cost on average $50.11 � 70 cents more than last year�s � marking the first yea

Jason Weller, chief of USDAÀs Natural Resources Conservation Service, sat down with Agri-Pulse in an exclusive interview recently to give his take on the living legacy of NRCS programs, and to explain why he thinks voluntary, incentive-based conservation can be just as

A veteran scientist for USDAÀs Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is alleging his supervisors actively impeded his work À even suspended him À for publishing research on the adverse affects of agricultural pesticides on pollinators, charges that the department flatly de

USDAPs Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will launch a $4 million initiative in 2016 to create and enhance habitat for monarch butterflies on private lands across 10 states.

Kika de la Garza, the Texas Democrat who ran the House Agriculture Committee from 1981 to 1994, used to tell a story about a submarine to connect what might have seemed like disparate issues ` agriculture and national security.