Articles by Philip Brasher

The Agriculture Department is advancing a revised set of new rules to tighten regulations on contracting practices in the livestock and poultry industries. Three rules, which the department is calling the Farmer Fair Practices Rules, were sent Friday to the Office of Management and Bud

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, Sara Wyant, GIPSA, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, EQUIP, CSP, Pecans, Cotton, Gary Black, Gerald Long, Environmental Defense Fund, David Festa, Michael Pollan, New York Times, World Food Prize, Borlaug

Donald Trump, Trump agriculture talking points, immigration, Representative Rodney Davis, Tsosie Lewis, Governor Dennis Daugaard, Senator John Thune, Deb Fischer, Food Policy Action, Rod Blum, Scott Garrett, David Valadao, Ken Cook

Animal welfare activists have moved beyond agitating for changes to sow and hen housing to taking on chicken producers, and aquaculture is in their sights next. The activists@ methods are familiar to the pork and egg industry: Publicizing practices they object to, and pressurin

Wikileaks, John Podesta, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, GMO labeling, Gary Hirshberg, Senator Bernie Sanders, Chairman Pat Roberts, World Food Prize conference, Global Food Security Act

Citrus Growers, Florida, Citrus, Grapefruit, Florida Citrus Commission, Andrew Meadows, Florida Citrus Mutual, Peter Singer, HSUS, NRCS, CSP, USDA Inspector General, Wheat Growers APH exclusion, Global Food Prices, UN Food and Agriculture Org

Donald Trump, American Farm Bureau Federation, Paul Wenger, Hillary Clinton, Larry Wooten, HSUS, Mike Markarian, HSUS Legislative Fund, Protect the Harvest, Forrest Lucas, White House Kitchen Garden, First Lady Michelle Obama, Let's Move

Congress has left Washington until after the election with a long list of unfinished business important to agriculture, including spending bills, expiring biofuel tax breaks, child nutrition reauthorization, Cuba trade liberalization and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Of th

Some of the first proposals for the next farm bill arenðt aimed at traditional agriculture but instead support those who are growing food on downtown rooftops, inside old warehouses and on strips of land in some of the nationðs most urbanized areas. The proposals pose a challenge

Ahead of World Food Day, an environmental group that has long challenged U.S. food policy claims American farmers arenðt as crucial to feeding the worldðs poor as often portrayed in the industryðs advertising and public relations.