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House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway said he was encouraged after being briefed today on current trade negotiations by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman.

The chairmen of the House and Senate Agriculture committees blasted the Obama administration s renewed proposal to slash premium subsidies for crop insurance.

The board of the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR), created by the 2014 farm bill, is meeting for the second time this week in Washington, shortly after which it will seek an executive director.

Early this week, the Environmental Protection Agency officially withdrew its interpretive rule that defined ðnormal farming practicesð for purposes of the Clean Water Act and as required by Congress in the 2015 0mnibus spending bill passed in December.

The Obama administration is asking Congress for $8.6 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for fiscal year 2016, which is $452 million, or 5 percent, more than its 2015 actual budget.

The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM) says the white potato is now OK to be added to the official shopping list for USDAðs Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

The House Agriculture Committee will take another look at the idea of severing nutrition programs from the rest of the farm bill as part of its upcoming review of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, said the panel's chairman, Mike Conaway.

After two previous failed attempts, NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite on Jan. 31 designed to detect soil moisture, improve climate and weather forecasts, track yields and help scientists more accurately account for how much carbon plants are removing from

The Land Trust Alliance, a national land conservation organization working to save the places people love by strengthening land conservation across America, today welcomed introduction of the Conservation Easement Incentive Act in Congress.

President Barack Obama sends Congress a fiscal 2016 budget Monday that will be dead on arrival