Philip Brasher

Donald TrumpÐs election should help ensure that farm groups can fight off challenges to agricultural programs when Congress starts work on the next farm bill in 2017, according to a veteran of multiple farm bill battles.

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- Lawmakers are working toward wrapping up the 114th Congress as soon as next week, and it looks as if theyÐll leave town without doing anything about the expiring tax benefits for biodiesel and other biofuels but a couple of other pieces of ag-related legislation could still pass

As he heads out the door, President Obama will put in place two key parts of his administrationÐs strategy to restrict the use of antibiotics in agriculture, part of a broader strategy for fighting drug-resistant germs. But heÐs also leaving behind some proposals that cou

Lawmakers return this week to their lame duck session while President-elect Donald Trump is expected to resume naming members of his incoming administration.

The Environmental Protection Agency gave a lift to the renewable fuels industry by finalizing biofuel usage mandates for 2017 higher than originally proposed. The agency is requiring19.28 billion gallons of total renewable fuel to be blended with conventional fuel under the renew

Despite Donald TrumpPs repeated promises to roll back regulations, he may have trouble doing more than nibbling away at the Obama administrationPs accomplishments in nutrition policy.

President-elect Donald Trump has taken steps needed to get his administration up and running at USDA, EPA, and other agencies important to agriculture. There has been little evidence, however, that Trump is close to naming an agriculture secretary or appointees to run those

Michael Torrey, who was advising President-elect Donald Trump on setting up his administration at the Agriculture Department, has resigned from the transition team because of the five-year lobbying ban.

Joel Leftwich, Republican staff director for the Senate Agriculture Committee,will lead President-elect Donald Trump0s transition team at the Agriculture Department. Michael Torrey, who had been the transition adviser on USDA, resigned last week because of a five-y