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Agriculture contributions to congressional candidates in the 2014 midterm cycle are tilting heavily toward Republican candidates. Little has changed since 2012, when election spending skewed toward the GOP by similar margins.

House Republicans are trying to figure out how to deal with states they believe are circumventing the intent of Congress by upping home heating assistance to lessen federal cuts in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), according to Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala.

Reaction to the EPA?s proposed rule to determine which bodies of water and wetland are protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA) has been swift and strong, with some lawmakers and agricultural groups calling it a massive government overreach while environmentalists said the proposal would help prot

The political crisis in Ukraine had had little affect so far on the country’s corn and grain exports, experts say.

Beef producers and some members of the agricultural community are expressing concerns that a government-appointed committee of nutrition and health experts is paying too much attention to reduced meat consumption as they debate recommendations for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).

For nearly four years, the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) board has faced a gauntlet of opposition from Farm Credit System (FCS) cooperative lenders over its demand that directors of the four banks and 78 local and regional lending associations hold advisory votes of their member-borrowers on sig

The Senate Agriculture Committee will likely approve the three nominees for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), including for the chairmanship, before the Easter recess, according to Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

The U.S. biofuels industry is bracing for the latest version of an international climate change report that could, for the first time, take a negative view of the production of food crops for biofuels.

USDA is funding a multi-institutional grant project to develop a national clearinghouse for a standardized farm safety and health curriculum for young workers, after the Labor Department last year withdrew a set of proposed regulations amid heavy criticism.

Tuesday is Earth Day, the annual celebration of the environment that dates back to 1970