Articles by Marshall Matz

There is a new question surrounding the Dietary Guidelines for Americans now being drafted by a committee for release in 2015.

The Organic Foods Production Act enacted in the 1990 Farm Bill served to establish uniform national standards for the production and handling of foods labeled as “organic.” The Act authorized a new USDA National Organic Program (NOP) to set national standards for the production, handling, and proce

While agriculture remains one of the last bastions of the good old boys, women are making inroads.

Agriculture is a business, a very big business. Whether you look at net farm income, agriculture exports or the number of people employed in the

Climate change is front and center. The melting glaciers are in the news, along with the loss of habitat for polar bears. Speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia last month, Secretary of State John Kerry said

Wheat remains both the most overlooked commodity produced in the US and, at the same time, the staff of life

USDA and the entire agriculture community rely on Farm Bills as the central pillar of political activity

The food stamp program, currently called SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has exploded in size and may now be the biggest hurdle to a farm bill.

Cardinal Turkson directly addressed the controversy surrounding biotechnology and genetic modification in the production of food using Catholic thought and Vatican II as his reference points.

The trade discussions under way have the potential of boosting America’s economic future to a degree we can barely imagine