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Speaking at a National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) meeting Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called for more investment in rural America.

As members of the European Union (EU) remain deadlocked over how to regulate the production and sale of food from cloned animals, five major livestock producing nations have come out in support of livestock cloning as one of many agricultural technologies that can help meet the growing demand for

The U.N.'s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) forecasts 2011 world wheat production at 676 million metric tons, up 3.4% from 2010.

The Agriculture Council of America (ACA) announced the 2011 National Ag Day written essay and video essay contest winners, Nora Faris and Kyle Trevino, respectively.

Responding to President Obama's proposed Clean Energy Standard to require 80% of U.S. electricity from clean energy by 2035, Senate Energy Committee Chair Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, want to know if a CES makes economic and environmental sense.

With President Obama beginning the week in Latin America, Congress out of town, and the dramas still unfolding in Japan and Libya, this week's action will be largely out of sight as backroom negotiations continue over federal spending and the federal debt limit.

The 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit northeastern Japan impacted only 1.5 percent of the countrys rice area and is unlikely to trigger imports, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday.

USDA corrects inaccurate media reports on animal antibiotics use, sees no rise in human antibiotics resistance.

First Lady Michelle Obama, along with school children from Bancroft and Tubman elementary schools, joined forces for the third planting season of the White House Kitchen garden yesterday. Guided by White House Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives Sam Kass, the group planted beets, br

U.S. pork producers are partnering with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) to provide pork for victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern sections of Japan on March 11.