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China's growing dairy sector continues to spur a surge in U.S. alfalfa hay exports, helping to push prices for the livestock feed to four years high in parts of California.

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The new farm programs for grain and oilseed growers will pay them up to $7 billion annually over the next few years, surpassing what they would have received through the old system of direct payments, according to new forecasts released Monday.

An unusual alliance of grain processors, environmental groups and municipal water utilities wants new enrollments in the Conservation Reserve Program targeted to practices that will improve water quality and wildlife habitat. The groups are asking the Agriculture Department0s Farm Ser

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has been discovered in separate turkey flocks in Missouri, the second and third discoveries of the virus in the Mississippi flyway.

Whether government has the authority to require food manufacturers to label products to disclose the presence of ingredients produced with biotechnology is again before the federal courts.

In recent years the California Farm Bureau Federation and the Western Growers Association, along with other farm groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have lobbied for policies that make it easier to hire foreign workers from Mexico and elsewhere.

The Coca-Cola Co. wants to develop fully renewable and recyclable plastic bottles, but to do this, Scott Vitters, the general manager of the PlantBottle Innovation Platform at Coke, said investors need confidence in a marketplace that can advance the technology.

ItÐs National Pollinator Week and groups concerned about the decline in the honey bee population are seeking support for a bill in Congress that would encourage state highway departments to develop unused highway right-of-ways for forage for the insect.

A wide-ranging group of food-related organizations is urging the Obama administration to have the FDA take another look at the preliminary determination it made last fall that the ÐGenerally Regarded as SafeÐ (GRAS) status be removed from partially hydrogenated oils (