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Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan brought to Ohio as she unveiled the first 60 products that consumers will soon see in stores throughout the country bearing the new USDA BioPreferred product label for certified biobased products.

Coinciding with President Obama's energy speech Wednesday calling for increased investment in biofuels and other clean energy sources, biofuels experts told a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing that petroleum's “monopoly power” is blocking the road to ethanol and other biofuels.

U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 872, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 with a strong bipartisan vote of 292 to 130. This legislation states that National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits are not required when applying pesticides according to their EPA app

Senators Amy Klobuchar, Debbie Stabenow, Jerry Moran, and Pat Roberts introduced bipartisan legislation Thursday to permanently set a five-year depreciation schedule for agricultural equipment to make the tax code more consistent and benefit the farm economy.

With sugar prices at record highs, Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) is once again taking aim at the U.S. sugar program.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual Prospective Plantings report this morning, showing U.S. farmers intend to plant 92.2 million acres of corn, 76.6 million acres of soybeans, 58 million acres of wheat this year and 12.5 million acres of cotton in 2011.

several sportsmen groups say they are deeply concerned that proposed funding cuts could strike directly at America’s bedrock conservation programs that protect fish and wildlife and pump nearly $200 billion into states and local communities.

Hog prices tell the whole story about the economic importance of ratifying the three pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.

Appellate court grants EPA request for more time to implement National Cotton Council v. EPA ruling ahead of House vote to prohibit Clean Water Act regulation of pesticides.

Dean Foods has agreed to settle a Department of Justice antitrust suit by selling the fluid milk processing plant at Waukesha, Wis. that it acquired from the Foremost Farms USA cooperative.