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This Easter is expected to inspire record seasonal candy sales, but the news is looked at in much different ways by the confectioners who make the treats and the sugar industry which provides key ingredients.

More than 1,000 stakeholders are gathering in Austin, Texas, this week for the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, an event that organizers say will build on a growing effort to source local food for cafeterias in schools, hospitals and other institutions.

Federal, state and local wildlife specialists are gathering in Montgomery, Alabama, this week to develop a coordinated strategy for dealing with what USDA calls one of the country’s “most destructive and formidable invasive species -- feral swine, or wild pigs.

U.S. negotiators appear to be running into a stone wall in their bid to open up Europe to genetically modified crops (GMOs) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

California Governor Jerry Brown is proposing major changes in the way the state regulates water from its underground reservoirs to preserve supplies as the most-productive agriculture state in the nation tries to cope with a historic drought.

Supporters of immigration reform legislation that would create a pathway to legal status for many of the nation’s undocumented farm workers are keeping up their push for legislation that Congress could approve this year.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released over the weekend says that the “estimates of global land use change (LUC) are highly uncertain, unobservable, unverifiable and dependent on assumed policy, economic contexts and inputs.”

A proposed rule from the National Labor Relations Board dealing with a faster unionization process for workers at U.S. companies has drawn the ire of the poultry sector. The U. S. Poultry & Egg Association, National Chicken Council, and National Turkey Federation recently submitted comments opposin

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow on Tuesday unveiled a new five-year conservation program that seeks to double a $1.2 billion government investment into $2.4 billion through public-private partnerships

Monsanto announced today that Kasey Gillette, the Senior Policy Advisor handling agriculture, nutrition and other policy issues in the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid since 2009, will join the firm as Director of Government Affairs. Kasey will be based out of the Washington, D.C.,