Articles by Stewart Doan

Michael Scuse, acting Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural services (FFAS), put “an extremely productive” label on the latest round of bilateral talks with China

The Occupy movement is spending the day focusing on what we eat and how it is produced in protests for Occupy our food supply

Midwest farmland values increase 22 percent, fastest pace since 1976 in Fed survey

Aid and international development groups said they’ll push Congress to at least reauthorize a $60 million program that allows for the purchase of food closer to the areas where it is needed and require U.S. food assistance shipments to be more nutritious.

Major farm and commodity groups meet this week on competing farm bill proposals.

Dudley Butler, administrator of USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), has tendered his resignation, effective Jan. 26, Agri-Pulse learned Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture decided to jettison many of the most controversial provisions of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proposed rule to reform livestock and poultry marketing practices, Agri-Pulse has learned.

The House and Senate Agriculture Committees spent the weekend working on the remaining details of their deficit reduction recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) says the 2012 Farm bill should combine parts of the SURE, ACRE, and Direct and Countercyclical Payment programs to create an all encompassing safety net

The largest U.S. farm organization asked Congress Thursday to continue the existing farm safety net structure in the 2012 Farm Bill and to make proportional spending cuts in the four titles of the legislation that comprise virtually all of the funding under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate