Daniel Enoch

The Environmental Protection Agency today is releasing its draft proposal for cutting carbon pollution from existing power plants – the single largest source of carbon pollution in the U.S.

A bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives is urging EPA chief Gina McCarthy to reduce mandated corn-ethanol production in the agency’s final rule for 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard levels.

About 62 percent of the U.S. winter wheat crop was in good or fair condition as of April 20, the same percentage as a year earlier, according to USDA. But conditions varied widely.

Federal, state and local wildlife specialists are gathering in Montgomery, Alabama, this week to develop a coordinated strategy for dealing with what USDA calls one of the country’s “most destructive and formidable invasive species -- feral swine, or wild pigs.

A coalition of U.S. agricultural groups representing pork, rice, wheat and dairy producers is urging the Obama administration to reach a deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without Japan unless Tokyo agrees to provide significant market access for their products.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says there’s little USDA can do to compensate hog producers for losses to the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus that’s killed millions of piglets since being discovered in the U.S. a year ago.

A small animal health company based in Ames, Iowa, says it’s making progress toward gaining a conditional license from USDA for the vaccine it’s developed against a virus that has killed millions of piglets since its discovery in U.S. herds last spring.

With the Senate in recess all week, agricultural stakeholders will be focused on the House Appropriations Committee which meets on to consider the FY 2015 spending bill for the USDA and FDA.

The Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday narrowly approved a bill authorizing $20.6 billion in discretionary spending for USDA and FDA in FY 2015, while adding amendments that would effectively ban horse slaughter in the U.S., mandate labeling for genetically modified salmon, and allow potatoes

Agricultural producers and energy facilities working to turn renewable biomass into clean energy will soon be able to apply for support through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program