Articles by Philip Brasher

Farmworker wages are rising amid a steady decline in illegal immigration from Mexico and a tightening labor supply for growers. The number of undocumented immigrants from Mexico who are living in the United States peaked at 6.9 million a decade ago and has dropped to 5.6 million, t

Tom Vilsack, farm economy, the farm bill, slumping farm economy, school meal bill, Chairman Pat Roberts, WRDA Resolution, tax extenders, American Farm Bureau, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Dow, Dupont, Bayer, Erik Fyrwald

Senators look to pass a long-stalled child nutrition bill as soon as this week and also will grill top executives of seed and chemical units about the impact of a series of planned mergers on the farm economy.

Trans-Pacific Partnership, Senator Orrin Hatch, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Zippy Duvall, Nick Giordano, American Farm Bureau, National Pork Producers Council, Senator Jeff Sessions, Senate Judiciary Committee, Bob Young, Bayer, Monsanto

Nominees to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission assured the Senate Agriculture Committee that they will regularly seek input from farmers and keep in mind the impact of regulations on the agribusiness sector. However, the Democratic nominee, Christopher Brummer, also

Agri-Pulse Audio Web Page, Bayer, Monsanto, Robb Fraley, Jim Blome, Monsanto, Bayer Crop Science, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Erik Fyrwald, ChemChina, Chuck Grassley, Bob Young, American Farm Bureau, Justice Department hearing

Prospects for comprehensive immigration reform on Capitol Hill appear as elusive as ever, no matter the outcome of this fallPs presidential and congressional elections. That means that the administrative decisions that the new president will make in enforcing immigration law will be th

Donald TrumpPs top agriculture policy adviser says the GOP presidential candidate views crop insurance and commodity programs as matters of national security and is open to easing rules on the agricultural guest worker program.

U.S. trade policy, Cuba, Trans-Pacific Partnership, White House Export Council, Eric Schultz, WTO, TPP, World Trade Organization, Donald Trump, Sam Clovis, WOTUS Rule, David Rouser, SNAP pilot projects, Jackie Walorski

Farmers will be lobbying Congress on issues ranging from agribusiness mergers to the Trans-Pacific Partnership this week, and lawmakers appear to be near a deal to keep the government running into the new fiscal year.