Articles by Whitney Forman-Cook

The Obama administration has chosen 10 rural communities for a demonstration project where a handful of federal agencies, including USDA, will team up and try out new strategies for bringing families out of poverty.

In keeping with his encyclical letter released earlier this year, Pope Francis spoke to a crowd of thousands on the White House South Lawn Wednesday morning on the urgent need to protect our common home from pollution and the effects of climate change.

Corn and soybean farmers in several Midwestern states are using state cost-share programs and the age-old method of trial and error as they start to plant more acres of cover crops.

Skirmishes are breaking out in Arizona, New Mexico and Washington, D.C., over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service°s (FWS) decision to expand the experimental population boundaries for the endangered Mexican gray wolf and the agency°s more recent push to

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report criticizes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for failing to track or evaluate the effectiveness of $2.1 billion worth of conditional food aid activities.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2015 à USDAàs Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced Wednesday that it would offer expanded price options and elections on organic crops in 2016, helping organic producers purchase higher crop insurance policies.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2015 Ð The pressure is on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and others to lobby Congress to reauthorize the Obama administrationÐs Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act before it expires at the end of the month.

The Western District Court of Texas vacated a 2014 0threatened0 listing of the lesser prairie chicken Tuesday on the grounds that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) incorrectly determined that voluntary conservation action wouldn0t be enough to protect the bird

The extended public comment period on EPA0s proposed risk management plan for the monarch butterfly