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The Central Sierra Recovery and Restoration Project in the Sierra National Forest in California is the big winner among the 10 new projects earmarked for funding in 2017 under USDAps Joint Chiefsp Landscape Restoration Partnership.

Elsa Murano, a former undersecretary for food safety at USDA who later served a short, rocky tenure as president of Texas A&M University, will be interviewed by President-elect Donald Trump to become secretary of agriculture.

Susan Combs, a former Texas agriculture commissioner and state comptroller, interviewed with Vice President-elect Mike Pence to become agriculture secretary or possible take another role in the Trump administration. Combs has the support of House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway&#

Mississippi River Basin states should be given a chance to address nutrient pollution first, before the federal government steps in, a federal court ruled late last week.

Agriculture secretary is a very big deal for President-elect Donald Trump and as with other cabinet positions he wants to make sure he is getting the right person for USDA, said spokesman Jason Miller.

A federal court is giving the National Cattlemen`s Beef Association until mid-February to complete a review of documents from a USDA audit of the beef checkoff, in connection with a lawsuit challenging NCBA`s role in how checkoff money is spent.

The Senate closed out the 114th Congress in the wee hours of last Saturday, passing a water projects bill, the last of a series of legislative achievements that will have far-reaching implications for agriculture. Topping the list was the GMO disclosure legislation approved last su

Angry Americans from both sides of the aisle came out to vote Nov. 8, shocking the world by catapulting Donald Trump into the White House with an Electoral College victory over Hillary Clinton who won the popular vote.

thw Senate passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown and then gave final congressional approval to a water projects bill that includes drought relief for California farmers

Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt, who has led legal challenges to the Obama administrationPs Pwaters of the United States ruleP and greenhouse gas regulations, has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to run the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruit