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Fall’s Congressional agenda was overloaded before Syria was added on top of everything else. The RFS policy dynamics can change overnight with the threat of war and rising oil prices

The Farm Bill is our nation’s biggest and most important environmental initiative for private working lands, protecting farmland, improving water quality and providing wildlife habitat. Farm Bill conservation programs have strong track records

Congress returns from August Recess this week, and, as we all knew would probably occur, suddenly other much more pressing business makes Farm Bill consideration by September 30 highly unlikely

African leaders firmly believe that the transformation of African agriculture has moved beyond its tipping point and it is time to turn hoes into tractors

I still remember Martin Luther King’s, “I have a dream speech”

The single largest federal investment in private lands conservation comes from programs authorized every five years in the Farm Bill.

we need to look at new products and new strategies for conservation as well.

Each day, the ag media dutifully reports constituent meetings in which House and Senate Ag Committee Members try to explain what happened, and discuss recess efforts to find the interim fix

The Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA have formed a task force to begin drafting the 8th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

How will we feed the 9 billion souls who will share our planet in a few short years?