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Just 25 miles from downtown Seattle, Jim Werkhoven and his brother Andy run a 1,100-head dairy farm that uses an anaerobic digester to process cow manure and pre-consumer food waste. Their system, located in Monroe, Washington, protects nearby salmon streams while recycling methane and solids from

After being roundly criticized by many farm organizations for new proposals dealing with clean water and proposed changes in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sat down in a USDA briefing room on Tuesday with a clear message for the agricul

A group of 40 agricultural organizations, trade associations and companies are commending U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman for standing firm against what they say is India’s attempt to “hold the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) hostage” to gain concessions in World Trade Organization nego

Family operations continue to dominate American farming and ranching, but they are increasingly larger and wealthier, in many ways more diverse, and make more use of the internet than ever, according to USDA’s 2012 Census of Agriculture.

Later this fall, USDA expects to allow growers to sign up for either the new Price Loss Coverage (PLC) or Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) commodity programs, but they’ll also have another key decision to make: whether to participate in a new optional crop insurance program called the Supplemental

A lead author of the National Climate Assessment released in Washington Tuesday says that only time will tell if the major floods and droughts in recent years are the result of climate change, but the models that track changing climate conditions have predicted the extreme weather episodes seen in

Even with worries about stability and predictability in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rule, several biofuel companies banded together this week to share the news of the steps they’ve taken to make cellulosic biofuel a reality in the U.S. and Brazil.

The organization representing U.S. rice growers and millers is going on the offensive in its bid to maintain market share in exports to Mexico – by far, the biggest buyer of American rice -- after a dramatic decline over the past four years.

Growth in domestic biodiesel demand to satisfy renewable fuels targets and increased access to biodiesel from other countries drove the U.S. to change from a net exporter of biomass-based diesel in 2012 to a net importer last year - by a wide margin, the DOE’s Energy Information Administration (EIA

Several agriculture-related stakeholders and lawmakers have been expressing concerns about an unreliable and slow transportation infrastructure system involving trucks and rail.