Articles by Philip Brasher

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Call it CSP 3.0. The Natural Resources Conservation Service is preparing to roll out a series of major changes to the Conservation Stewardship Program designed to make it easier for farmers and agency field staff to use and to ensure its environmental benefits are better targeted to local

Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Chuck Grassley, Bayer, Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, ChemChina, Syngenta, John Deere, Precision Planting, Hunger in America, Secretary Tom Vilsack, agribusiness women, Hong Kong Shanghai, Alexis Taylor

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Hermine, cotton, new farm bill, Richard Wilkins, American Soybean Association, House Ag Chairman Mike Conaway, Senate Agriculture Committee, Conservation Stewardship Program, Jason Weller, Gypsum, National Farmers Union, NFU, Potash Corporation

Donald Trump, Illegal immigrants, NAFTA, Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico, NAFTA, Pam Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Stopgap funding, omnibus spending bill, 2017 appropriations bill, Regulatory Integrity Act, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Jim Matheson, a Democrat who was elected to seven terms in the U.S. House from a reliably Republican district in Utah, knows something about what it takes to work across party lines and buck political headwinds.

Congress ends an unusually long summer break next week facing critical unfinished business and little time to complete it. Dominating the to-do list is funding for the federal government in fiscal 2017, which begins Oct. 1.

Donald Trump, illegal immigrants, Donald Trump Jr., Bob Young, AFBF, Senator Chuck Grassley, USDA offices, USDA Threats, autonomous tractor, Case IH, Farm Progress Show, Adrian Percy, Bayer Crop Science, Spencer Chase, European Union

The Agriculture Department shut down offices in five states because of anonymous threats, including at Beltsville, Md., home of USDA's flagship research facility. A spokesman didnðt describe the nature of the threats but said that the department was working wi