Articles by Philip Brasher

The Senate will likely vote on the biotech disclosure agreement soon after returning next week from the long Independence Day weekend, says Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts. Roberts, R-Kan., told Agri-Pulse Wednesday morning that Majority Leader Mitch

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Farm groups and their allies in the food industry are mobilizing calls and emails to press senators to pass the historic agreement on national standards for disclosure of GMOs.

A landmark Senate agreement on national disclosure standards for genetically engineered foods would allow companies to disclose GMO ingredients through digital codes rather than on-package language or symbols

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Senate negotiators have reached an historic deal to set national labeling standards for foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients, according to sources.

Chairman Pat Roberts, Gina McCarthy, EPA, Frank Lucas, Rural Appraisers, American Bankers Association, Appraisal Foundation, Speaker Paul Ryan, Donald Trump, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rasins

Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee have been closing in on a landmark deal to set national standards for labeling biotech foods. The negotiations have been described as very delicate and the principal negotiators, Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow of Mich

Having failed time after time to kill the Obama administration s new air and water rules, congressional Republicans are trying to hit the regulators in the pocketbook. Both the House and the Senate are advancing fiscal 2017 spending bills for the Environmental Protection Agency that w

Lawmakers are telling the Pentagon to forget about the idea of Meatless Mondays. An amendment that the House adopted to the Defense Department s fiscal 2016 spending bill would prohibit the Pentagon from removing meat from its food service program manual.