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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, July 28, 2024
With combines rolling across the country, yield monitors routinely share the good news of bumper crops and the not so good news of wet or drought-parched regions where little seemed to grow. All of this data, of course, can be used by USDA to establish the Actual Pr
The Farm Credit Council Board of Directors selected Todd Van Hoose to serve as their new council president and CEO, replacing Ken Auer when he retires in early 2016.
From Montana to Maryland, to Brazil, Bavaria and as far away as Turkey, new Ðsuper weedsÐ are threatening to rob profits from farmers and could force dramatic changes in production and harvesting systems
One year into his job as Farm Service Agency (FSA) administrator, Val Dolcini has made great strides in addressing agency goals, but knows more work lies ahead - especially in areas like information technology (IT).
A U.S. federal district court judge on Friday dismissed a number of the legal claims filed against Syngenta regarding U.S. sales of Viptera, but will allow some challenges to be potentially amended and others to go forward.
The U.S. 9th Circuit of Appeals vacated the EPA�s approval of the pesticide sulfoxaflor, concluding that the agency violated federal law when it approved the registration without additional studies regarding potential impact on honeybees.
- Life at the top of major nonprofit trade organizations appears to be improving once again à at least when it comes to compensation packages that Agri-Pulse tracks in our annual CEO reports.
Iowa farmers are bracing for another year of belt tightening ` cutting back on everything from cash rent, to fertilizer and farm equipment - as they expect farm income to drop once again in 2015-16.
President Obama traveled to sunny Las Vegas on Monday to promote his record on renewables and announce more than $1 billion in Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives to fight climate change and accelerate investments in clean energy
After losing ground in the presidential polls over the last month, U.S. Sen.Marco Rubio tried to reinvigorate his sagging Iowa campaign with stops at the Iowa State fair last night and again today
