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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today posted their proposed definition for waters of the U.S. protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA) in the Federal Register, triggering a 90 day public comment period.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today a determination of nonregulated status for Dow AgroSciences’s soybean genetically engineered (GE) for insect resistance.

A number of meat and poultry groups are thanking President Obama for his administration’s “strong stance” on agricultural tariffs in trade negotiations with Japan

Canadian Pacific told the U.S. Surface Transportation Board today that the railroad is committed to doing its part to see that U.S. farmers in the Upper Midwest get the fertilizer they need for spring planting and that deliveries should improve as ?extreme winter weather? blamed for congestion at a

The State Department announced today that is extending the comment period, for an unknown amount of time, for federal agencies to submit views on the controversial Keystone pipeline project.

USA Rice Federation says there’s been no confirmation of Japanese media reports that U.S negotiators allowed Japan to maintain import restrictions on American rice as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said hog producers are now required to report outbreaks of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), in an effort to slow the spread of the disease that has killed millions of piglets since it was detected in the U.S. a year ago

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A new study suggests that schools that ban chocolate milk for health reasons may be inviting some unintended – and negative – consequences.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and three other top Republican leaders requested information today from the Department of Health and Human Services on its efforts to oversee states using benefits from a home heating assistance program to bolster the Supplemental Nutrition