Philip Brasher

In what could be his final appearance on Capitol Hill, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defended the farm economy as basically sound but appealed for flexibility from Congress to aid dairy producers and other struggling sectors. Vilsack also promised the Senate Agriculture Commi

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Executives of five seed and agrichemical giants undergoing mergers sought to assure skeptical members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the new companies will accelerate innovation in biotechnology, not slow it down.

A White House plan for updating federal regulation of agricultural biotechnology calls for the FDA and EPA to clarify how they will treat products of gene editing. The 19-page plan also says that federal agencies are working to better coordinate in the regulation of genetically engineered

Farmworker wages are rising amid a steady decline in illegal immigration from Mexico and a tightening labor supply for growers. The number of undocumented immigrants from Mexico who are living in the United States peaked at 6.9 million a decade ago and has dropped to 5.6 million, t

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Senators look to pass a long-stalled child nutrition bill as soon as this week and also will grill top executives of seed and chemical units about the impact of a series of planned mergers on the farm economy.

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Nominees to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission assured the Senate Agriculture Committee that they will regularly seek input from farmers and keep in mind the impact of regulations on the agribusiness sector. However, the Democratic nominee, Christopher Brummer, also

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