Ed Maixner

FDA on Friday rolled out the first federal food-safety standards for fresh produce and also finalized regulations for verifying that imported foods are free of pathogens -- in rules mandated by the landmark Food Modernization Act signed into law nearly five years ago.

Farmers and other landowners are invited to USDA`s 46th general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program, to run from Dec. 1 to Feb. 26.

Export statistics and the opinions of some American agricultural equipment dealers suggest U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA) tours that bring farmers from East and South Africa to the U.S. to show off American products on their home turf are working as intended.

On the animal nutrition front, some veteran ranchers and other livestock experts are loosening their reins @ letting animals in pasture or feedlots browse feed selections separately rather than formulating rations for them.

After watching U.S. wheat acreage and production slide steadily for 18 years, the National Association of Wheat Growers has had quite enough and is coming out swinging. The counteroffensive, called simply the Wheat Action Plan, right now is conceptual,

Gradually in a fistful of ways, Florida growers and citrus researchers are beating a path back from the onslaught of huanglongbing (HLB), often called citrus greening, that began decimating the states groves a decade ago.

The Organic Center wants little baggies of topsoil from as many U.S. organic farmers as possible to support a broad study comparing organic matter composition in organic fields, pastures and forests with that in conventionally farmed land.

United Fresh, representing the nations farmers, processors, shippers, marketers, food services and others in the fruit and vegetables sector, convened here this week, shortly after a mountain of long anticipated food safety rules began pouring from the Food and Dru

A national organic research and promotion program, or checkoff, has been a dream of the Organic Trade Association and others for years.

Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss loves his perch in Omaha, Nebraska, surveying and heralding trends in the American heartlandàs economy.