Daniel Enoch

President Obama has proclaimed this week as World Trade Week, shining a spotlight on several important commerce-related events in and around the nation’s capital.

The House Appropriations agriculture subcommittee on Tuesday will consider a draft bill that provides $142.5 billion in discretionary and mandatory funding for USDA and FDA programs for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.

Honey bee colonies in the U.S. had fewer losses over this past winter than in recent years but the losses are still too high for the pollinator population to be sustainable, according to an annual survey of beekeepers by USDA

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2014 – The House is in recess this week but the Senate has a busy schedule, with lots of news expected on the transportation front – both on water and on land.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is siding with U.S. sugar producers who claim they’ve been harmed by subsidized sweetener from Mexico that is being dumped on U.S. markets at less than fair value.

A new study by the conservation group Ducks Unlimited puts a price tag on what it would cost to replace U.S. rice fields

China has lifted a seven-year ban on poultry imports from Virginia

Washington is expected to focus on USDA implementation of the farm bill and international trade negotiations this week.

A White House panel says Big Data is creating “incredible opportunities” for health care, energy use, education and agriculture, but also presents enormous challenges, especially to individual privacy

The political crisis in Ukraine had had little affect so far on the country’s corn and grain exports, experts say.