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USDA today announced the availability of approximately $66 million in Specialty Crop Block Grants to state departments of agriculture for projects that help support specialty crop growers, including locally grown fruits and vegetables, through research, programs to increase demand and more.

I’ve spent the last 17 years of my life farming in North Dakota and I’ve loved every minute of it. But it can be a very risky business. There are many steps that farmers can take to manage risk, like growing a wide variety of crops, rotating crops and growing cover crops to prevent erosion.

Vermont is a step closer to becoming the first U.S. state to require food labels to say if a product was made with genetically modified crops (GMOs). A mandatory labeling bill that would take effect in July 2016 was approved today by the state Senate in a 28-2 vote.

Leaders of the movement promoting the use of locally grown foods by large cafeterias told stakeholders here that there has been “significant institutional support” for programs that bring healthy, locally sourced food, as well as nutrition and agriculture education opportunities, to institutional c

President Obama wrote about how pleased he was to join in celebrating Norman Borlaug's legacy and support for biotechnology in a letter to Julie Borlaug.

Three senators urged USDA today to develop food safety standards that would significantly reduce levels of salmonella and campylobacter in chicken and turkey products.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) awarded $196.4 million in funding to more than 80 U.S. agricultural and trade organizations to help expand commercial export markets for U.S. products.

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) yesterday ordered the Canadian Pacific and BNFS railway companies to report by Friday their plans for fertilizer delivery in the Midwest.

A study released by Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE) and the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform (ACIR) on Tuesday argues that the economy has suffered from the lack of immigration reform.

A report from the watchdog group Sunlight Foundation shows that agriculture – especially the dairy and sugar sectors – is among the top industries lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).