Philip Brasher

A bipartisan proposal to kill the corn ethanol mandates won`t be considered in the Senate.

House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway says his committee will conduct a `full-scale review` of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

House and Senate committees have set a Feb. 4 hearing on the Obama administrations Clean Water Act rule as lawmakers plan how to block it from taking effect.

The House Agriculture Committee will have a significant new look on the Democratic side. The committee will have 19 Democrats, down from 21 in the last Congress, and six of those will be new to the committee. Four are women.

President Obama makes the case for his political agenda Tuesday with a State of the Union message that will challenge the GOP congressional majority on tax policy while likely reaching out to Republicans on trade

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2015 0 Critics of the corn ethanol industry want to put the Senate on record calling for an end to the annual usage mandates for the biofuel. An amendment that Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., are

The dairy program created by the new farm bill is proving to have nationwide appeal and attracting big farms in California, Idaho and Texas. In California, which is by far the nation0s largest producer of milk, 69 percent of the state0s 1,515 farms enrolled in

Freshman Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst will give the Republican response to President Obama s state of the union address next Tuesday.

More than 100 conservation projects aimed at protecting water quality, restoring critical wildlife habitat and addressing other environmental challenges will get federal matching funds under a groundbreaking program authorized by the new farm bill. The 115 projects include one aimed at pre