Daniel Enoch

U.S. Trade Negotiator Michael Froman says India’s refusal to support a package of agreements including the so-called Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has brought the World Trade Organization “to the brink of crisis.”

A House Agriculture subcommittee on Thursday heard witnesses describe the important role played by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in fighting hunger. But several said the program is badly in need of reform.

USDA has chosen representatives from 11 universities, including a Nobel Prize laureate, plus officials from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Cargill Inc., the chairwoman of the National Corn Growers Association and a former U.S. Agriculture Secretary as board members for the new Foundation fo

Sen. Pat Roberts told EPA chief Gina McCarthy yesterday that many of the people he represents in Kansas believe the Environmental Protection Agency has an “anti-agriculture agenda” that is hurting the state’s economy.

The food fight over nutrition requirements in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 will resume Wednesday when Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow holds a hearing on school meal programs across the country

EPA today issued a proposal to protect Bristol Bay in Alaska from development of large scale copper and gold mine. The agency says the operation, backed by Northern Dynasty Minerals and the Pebble Limited Partnership, would threaten one of the world’s most productive salmon fisheries.

USDA and the Energy Department today announced the selection of 10 projects that are being awarded funding aimed at accelerating genetic breeding programs to improve plant feedstocks for the production of biofuels, biopower, and biobased products.

USDA is making available 13 million in 2014 Farm Bill funding to partially reimburse farmers seeking certification for organic production.

The U.S. corn crop, the nation’s biggest, continues to improve, with the fields in the best condition for this time of the growing season in years.

Look for trade issues to make headlines this week as U.S. efforts continue to forge two major commercial treaties in our Washington Week Ahead