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The Food and Drug Administration has refused to consider requiring the labeling of biotech foods, affirming its longstanding policy that therePs no legal basis for mandating such disclosure on products that are essentially the same as their conventional versions. The FDA deci

At the beginning of his chairmanship of the House Agriculture Committee, Mike Conaway promised a �soup to nuts� review of USDA�s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which accounts for the lion�;

The American Farm Bureau Federation�s annual Thanksgiving dinner survey found this year�s holiday feast for 10 will cost on average $50.11 � 70 cents more than last year�s � marking the first yea

USDA is making $350 million available to help landowners protect and restore key farmlands, grasslands and wetlands across the nation.

House appropriators are open to using the fiscal 2016 sending bill to block states from requiring the labeling of foods with biotech ingredients. The top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow, has been leading discussions in the Senate legislation that would pre

Kenneth Arrow concludes that trillion-dollar benefits from climate control regulations �dwarf the higher energy costs of United States emissions control.� He insists that regulations enacted by the U.S. are vital �to avoid th

Supermarkets, pizza chains and convenience store have banded together to try to take the bite out of new menu labeling regulations before they take effect. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved, 36-12, a bipartisan bill that would make it easier for those businesses

USDA has announced the award of $200 million to U.S. agricultural organizations to help expand markets for U.S. goods in fiscal year 2016.

The Energy Department (DOE) recently announced $22.7 million for 23 projects intended to significantly reduce the costs for solar energy systems across a variety of technologies.

Farm groups are pushing Congress to hurry up and renew critical tax breaks such as the expanded Section 179 expensing allowance. Lawmakers say they are confident there will be action on the tax extenders next month but it�s not clear how long they will be kept in force.