Philip Brasher

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.

Congress ends an unusually long summer break next week facing critical unfinished business and little time to complete it. Dominating the to-do list is funding for the federal government in fiscal 2017, which begins Oct. 1.

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The Agriculture Department shut down offices in five states because of anonymous threats, including at Beltsville, Md., home of USDA's flagship research facility. A spokesman didnðt describe the nature of the threats but said that the department was working wi

Revenue insurance claims on corn are likely to be modest this year except in eastern areas of the Corn Belt that have been hurt by dry weather, a leading analyst says.

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Donald Trump, Trans-Pacific Partnership, North American Free Trade Agreement, China trade enforcement, Mike Pence, GOP Voters against trade, Hillary Clinton, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, immigration reform, Lynn Tramonte, America's Voice

Complaints about disparities in Agriculture Risk Coverage payments continue to dog USDAPs management of the program. But those concerns may pale in comparison to the cost of addressing broader issues with ARC when lawmakers get down to writing the next farm bill. Some ARC supporters fe