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USDA announced its decision on Farm Service Agency (FSA) county office consolidations proposed in January as part of USDA’s Blueprint for Stronger Service. In total, FSA will consolidate 125 of the 131 offices originally proposed for consolidation.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today denied a Corn Refiners Association (CRA) petition to rename high-fructose corn syrup “corn sugar,” saying the action would confuse U.S. consumers and could even pose a health risk to those suffering from fructose intolerance.

Academics, producers and consultants agreed that a ‘cookie cutter approach’ to achieve the Chesapeake Bay water quality targets using nutrient management plans (NMP) will not be effective without balancing public and private benefits.

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) needs to implement more effective second-party reviews over the manual calculation of Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE), according to a new USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released last week.

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute released a new analysis of the potential impacts of key farm program changes.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack shared the following perspective on Memorial Day, noting the high concentration of service members from rural America, in his blog post titled, “Remembering Those Who Served.”

One of the biggest challenges in an absence of data on antibiotic usage is that people have grossly overestimated antimicrobial usage in animals, said Michigan State University Professor and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Julie Funk during a roundtable discussion facilitated by the U.S. Farmers and

a House subcommittee will address a topic that is sure to resonate with thousands of farmers and ranchers: “Planning for the Death Tax: Can small businesses survive?”

Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan spoke at the Atlantic’s 2012 Food Summit held in Washington, DC yesterday, where she said the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Farm Bill maintained and even increased programs designated for horticulture and organic food.

The Corn Farmers Coalition is sending the nation’s top crop and the farm families to the U.S. capital this summer for the fourth year in a row as part of an educational program that debuts June 1 at Union Station.