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Food Safety and Inspection Service chief Al Almanza defended new poultry inspection rules before a skeptical House panel last week while describing a similar plan for hog slaughter facilities.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack used his address this week to the 2016 National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference to sharply criticize GOP lawmakers who are rallying behind drug testing for Americans who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

U.S. food manufacturers@ and retailers@ demand for eggs from hens free of confinement in cages has created @the most fundamental change in the egg industry that I@ve ever witnessed,@ says the CEO and co-founder of Rembrandt Foods, in Spirit Lake, Iowa

Organic dairy processors were unable to keep up with increasing demand at times last year because of shortfalls in production, due in part to the lack of organic feed for milking cows, according to panelists at the first-ever session on organic agriculture at the USDA@s annual Agri

The drop in commodity prices since 2013, falling farmland values and the ongoing decline in agricultural income is making it harder for farmers to repay operating loans and could make credit more difficult to get for many next year, Nathan Kauffman, assistant vice president and Omaha b

A top scientist at USDA, a Monsanto executive and other experts agreed Monday that improving on existing biotechnology and developing new agriculture practices are vital to meeting increased global food demand by mid-century but they didn t say it ll be easy.

EPA is moving ahead with cancellation of the pesticide flubendiamide, which under the trade name Belt is registered for use on more than 200 crops, including soybeans and almonds.

The Agricultural Research Service did not violate USDA@s Scientific Integrity Policy (SIP), as asserted by an entomologist who has published papers on the risks of neonicotinoids to monarch butterflies, a USDA-assembled panel has found.

A wide array of farm and manufacturing groups have asked the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to revisit its decision to decide waters of the U.S. challenges in that court.

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts will try again this week to get an agreement with Dem-ocrats on legislation to head off state GMO labeling laws.