Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue suggested to lawmakers that his department could soften the definition of able-bodied adults who are subject to food stamp work requirements, but he declined to budge from a USDA reorganization plan to relocate two research agencies out of the nation's capital.

The renegotiated North American trade pact is popular in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, but the Trump administration and U.S. lawmakers are making ratification increasingly difficult with complications that threaten to derail the process.

An economically robust American organic sector thrashes through its dilemmas about what's really organic as some regulatory sideboards come off or are found missing.

A new climate policy priority document from the Sustainable Food Policy Alliance seeks certainty on a carbon pricing system, but stops short of endorsing any one approach.

A bipartisan, bicameral contingent of lawmakers are calling on congressional appropriators to support the Navigation and Ecosystem Restoration Program in upcoming report language.