Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that under USDA's new "Smart Snacks in School" nutrition standards, America's students will be offered healthier food options during the school day

The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation (H.R. 1772) today, with a 22-9 vote, which would mandate the use of the federal work authorization program, E-Verify, by all employers, including farm owners.

Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, along with Congressman Dave Loebsack (IA-02) and Bruce Braley (IA-01) today introduced the bipartisan, five-year Senate farm bill in the House after the House failed last week to pass a farm bill to move on to a confer

Rural voters in the Great Plains, Midwest and Southeast believe that elected officials ignore small communities and fail to invest in their future

The Supreme Court has decided not to hear the “E15 challenge” from American Petroleum Institute and other ethanol opponents, a decision that pleases the ethanol industry.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free ‘dead zone’ to be the fourth smallest since mapping of the annual hypoxic, or oxygen-free area began in 1985.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -Topographical technology can improve conventional implementation of vegetative buffer systems in the row crop landscape, which is “not working as well as it should,” a U.S. Forest Service research scientist told a National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research (C-

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -As the House and Senate Agriculture Committees continue their investigations into the recent Peregrine financial group failure and MF Global’s loss of customer funds last year, agricultural cooperatives and small financial institutions desperate for market certainty also

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -With drought conditions burning up pastures and limiting availability of affordable feedstocks, many livestock and poultry farmers are scrambling to figure out how to stay in business. In some cases, they are already liquidating herds.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2012 -The Food Safety Modernization Act, passed with bipartisan support in 2010 and signed into law in January 2011, was touted as a way to decrease food-borne illness outbreaks.