Articles by Philip Brasher

Farm groups and biotech companies want the White House to press China harder to accelerate its approval of new genetically engineered crops. Industry groups have sent a pair of letters to President Obama to make the issue a priority during the upcoming visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping

Republican presidential candidates need to get beyond the �meat cleaver� approach to immigration policy that has dominated the campaign so far, says House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway. �What I hear Donald Trump saying is that he

The Food and Drug Administration has finalized the first major food safety regulations under a sweeping federal law that�s intended to prevent illnesses linked to both domestic and foreign-produced foods. The first two rules, which were tweaked to address a

Milk producers are becoming increasingly dependent on immigrant workers, who now account for half the labor on dairy farms, a study shows. Nearly 77,000 immigrant worked on dairy farms in 2014 out of about 150,000 workers nationwide, according to a Texas A&M study for t

The mixed court rulings on the Obama administrations new Clean Water Act rule (WOTUS) should motivate more Democrats to support repealing the measure or at least blocking its implementation, says Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Despite an improving economy, there was no meaningful improvement in household food security again last year. USDA says 14 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2014 - meaning that they had difficulty at some point during the year getting adequate nutrition. Ther

A long list of major agriculture and food issues will be on the agenda in Washington this fall, including GMO labeling, child nutrition, the àwaters of the U.S.à rule and the country-of-origin labeling law for meat.

Unless Congress intervenes, the new price support programs created by the 2014 farm bill -- Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage -- will be subject to sequestration cuts just like the direct payments they replaced, according to USDA.

Agri-Pulse Audio Web Page McDonaldàs says it will switch to cage-free eggs in the United States and Canada over the next 10 years, a decision hailed as a landmark move by animal welfare activists because of the companyàs buying power. McDonaldàs USA buys 2 billio

Congress returns to work with a long list of unfinished business to deal with this fall, including the budget, a long-term highway bill and a reauthorization of child nutrition programs