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The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) says the U.S. should cut off bilateral talks with Japan on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and complete the trade pact with the other 10 nations involved in the negotiations.

WASHINGTON, May 21, 2014 – Nutrition assistance programs are a familiar battlefront in Congress, but the fighting is usually over spending levels. It was a different story Tuesday when a House subcommittee met and approved a FY 2015 funding bill for USDA and the FDA

Cuts proposed by House appropriators to mandatory funding for farm energy programs authorized by the recently adopted five-year farm bill are targeting successful initiatives that play a key role in boosting the rural economy, according to programs advocates.

The U.S. House of Representatives easily passed the bipartisan Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) conference report on Tuesday by a whopping 412-4 margin.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled new programs and online tools to help farmers in the complex decision-making process that growers will face in the coming year

Tucked into Section 1049 of the Waterways Resources Reform Development Act (WRRDA) is language designed to give farmers and ranchers some relief from the Environmental Protection Agency's Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule on farm storage tanks.

Predicting how judges will decide, based on their comments and the questions they ask attorneys during oral arguments, is notoriously difficult. Listening to members of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Monday, one could conclude that they tend to believe that USDA’s country-of

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman is putting a rosy glow on the latest negotiating session aimed at forging a free trade pact among a dozen Pacific Rim countries, but comments from Japan are darkening the picture.

Consumer demand for “sustainable” food production is causing some of the world’s largest companies to make environmental promises, which could require agricultural producers to assess their farming practices, especially fertilizer use. Industry officials and environmentalists say farmers need to ge

In the past, Northeast China has been a difficult market for U.S. companies to crack. The region is traditionally an area of farming and manufacturing, making it difficult to find a place for U.S. agricultural exports, notes USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).