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the Senate delivered a hard blow to the U.S. ethanol industry

The Senate will not support the House-passed budget cuts for agriculture and nutrition.

The USDA says that the department, in cooperation with state partners, has improved payment accuracy and program integrity in SNAP, the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program.

The American Meat Institute, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the U.S. Meat Export Federation and the American Meat Association have joined to ask USDA to move forward with a comprehensive bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) rule that would align U.S. policy with international guidelin

Chairman Gary Gensler tried to convince members of the Senate Agriculture Committee why the Act’s derivative reforms are necessary

, lawmakers easily defeated a series of amendments offered by GOP deficit hawks that would have cut hundreds of millions of additional dollars from international food aid programs and USDA’s Ag Marketing, Economic Research and Foreign Ag Services.

the Obama Administration raised serious concerns about the content of H.R. 2112, which provides funds for USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and related agencies through 2012.

A House Judiciary panel heard testimony Wednesday on legislation that would require employers to electronically certify worker eligibility

Citing potential harm to thousands of small family farms, Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., Chairman of the House Small Business Committee, and Scott Tipton, R-Colo., Energy and Trade Subcommittee Chairman, called on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to comply with the Regulatory Flexibility Act

With both the House and Senate in session this week, there are plenty of hearings scheduled throughout the week, but farm groups will be closely watching the outcome of the Rules Committee meeting Monday afternoon.