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Catfish exporting countries including Vietnam will be getting some high-level help from USDA early next year as the nations prepare to apply to keep their ability to ship catfish to the U.S. after the department0s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) takes over inspect

USDA is overhauling its Process Verified Program (PVP) with an eye to handling a flood of requests for certifying non-GMO food labels. The Agricultural Marketing Service is consolidating PVP into a single administrative structure to ensure that the management and implementation is

Since the 1980s, water quality trading (WQT) has been a concept that many farmers, businesses and municipalities have embraced as a voluntary way to reduce nutrient pollution, and in some cases, generate additional revenue. But a recent report by the environmental advoc

For generations, farmers have observed newborn and other young pigs beset with tremors sometimes so severe that the pigs can0t suckle and they starve to death. Often called 0the shakes,0 it has been a nervous system disorder with no specific name and no cure, and otherw

USDA s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) says its plan to have a new and improved Conservation Stewardship Program up and running by January has been delayed and the CSP s new features won t be fully rolled out until the beginning of 2017.

U.S. lawmakers and ag industry stakeholders were quick to respond today after the World Trade Organization authorized $1.01 billion in retaliation for damages resulting from the U.S. country-of-origin labeling law, and Canada pledged to quickly impose tariffs on

A wild mallard duck shot by a hunter last month in Morrow County, Oregon, has tested positive for Eurasian H5 avian influenza. USDA has yet to determine the virus0 strain, or if commercial poultry flocks are in danger.

With lower prices, stronger competition and diminishing demand from China, USDA lowered its forecast for fiscal 2016 agricultural exports to $131.5 billion, down $7.0 billion from the August forecast and $8.2 billion below final fiscal 2015 exports.

The week ahead is shaping up to be the most important period for agriculture and food policy since at least the passage of the 2014 farm bill, with critical action coming on country-of-origin labeling, school nutrition standards, tax policy and a range of other issues

Agri-Pulse is pleased to welcome Bill Tomson to the firmps editorial team as a contributing editor.