Articles by Philip Brasher

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts is pushing USDA to get the new farm payments out the door to producers. The Farm Service Agency is required- starting this month- to send farmers the payments theyre owed for the 2014 crop year on the new Agriculture Revenue Coverage (A

Kevin McCarthy stunned House Republicans by dropping out of the race for speaker at the last minute, saying he couldnt unify the fractured GOP caucus. McCarthy, R-Calif., said he would stay on as House majority leader, but his decision left the House GOP reeling he

House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan was under heavy pressure from colleagues to run for speaker as Republicans prepared to break for a week-long recess with no other obvious option. House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, is among several other Republicans who are

USDAs Foreign Agricultural Service has issued commodity-by-commodity fact sheets outlining the reductions in tariffs and increases in quotas negotiated under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

For all the battles that the Obama administration and agriculture have waged in recent years, the White House wasted no time making it clear how important agriculture will be to President Obamas economic legacy - congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The future of Feed the Future is looking a bit murky. The Obama administration is eager to get Congress to write the $1 billion-a-year initiative into law

Key congressional Republicans are raising concerns about the just-completed Pacific Rim trade pact, in part because the Obama administration didnPt insist on protecting U.S. tobacco products from regulations in other countries.

President Obama launched his push for approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership with a one-hour, closed-door meeting with leaders of agriculture and other business sectors that will be critical to the congressional debate.

Amid a power struggle in the House Republican caucus, the White House has started negotiations with congressional leaders on a sweeping budget deal that will be critical to GOP hopes to roll back some of President ObamaPs regulatory agenda.

The United States and 11 other Pacific rim nations announced a landmark trade agreement after a last-minute push by New Zealand to lower U.S. barriers to dairy imports. The deal, reached in a final round of negotiations Atlanta, will allow the Trans-Pacific Pa