Daniel Enoch

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) says Chinaðs ban on U.S. poultry and egg imports is a ðclear violationð of international trade rules and will hurt American poultry and egg producers.

U.S. farmers have planted about 40.5 million acres of winter wheat for harvest in 2014, down 5 percent from a year earlier, USDA said today in a report.

With bipartisan support from some key members of Congress, more than 30 farm groups and agribusinesses on Thursday officially launched a coalition to work for the end of the half-century old Cuban embargo and to increase trade with the communist country.

Meals provided to children and adults in day care would contain more fruits, whole grains and less sugar and fat under new °science-based° nutrition standards in a rule proposed by USDA.

A major roadblock to the Keystone XL pipeline was removed today when the Nebraska Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision and upheld a state law that allowed the governor to approve the route of the project within the state.

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comment on its revised assessment of the pesticide chlorpyrifos which the agency said shows some health risk to workers who mix, load and apply the product.

The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and five other national agribusinesses are urging EPA to rethink its proposed rules related to construction or modification of grain elevators, saying the proposals would cost much more than the agency has estimated and require a burdensome amount of r

USDA says pesticide chemical levels found on scores of foods tested during 2013 were at levels that do not pose a threat to human health.

The U.S. hog and pig inventory totaled 66.1 million head as of Dec. 1, up 2 percent from a year earlier and up 1 percent from Sept. 1, USDA said today in a quarterly report.

DuPont and Monsanto Co. have agreed to settle and dismiss their respective patent infringement lawsuits pending in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, possibly ending a long and bitter legal battle between the world?s two largest seed companies over patents related to seed technology.