Philip Brasher

Farmers will be lobbying Congress on issues ranging from agribusiness mergers to the Trans-Pacific Partnership this week, and lawmakers appear to be near a deal to keep the government running into the new fiscal year.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Council on Environmental quality, AC21, Advisory Committee on Biotechnology for the 21st Century, White House Food Council, Cage-free eggs, Michael Gregoire, Animal and Plan Health Inspection Service, coexistence, CFTC

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, GMO Labeling Law, President Obama, ARC-PLC, Agriculture Risk Coverage, Price Loss Coverage, Congressional Budget Office, Heritage Foundation, Daren Bakst, House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, cottonseed

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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.