Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

The Senate Finance Committee included several biofuel tax credit provisions in its tax extender package passed Thursday. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., released a summary of the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012, a package that includes more than $205 billio

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced a 9.6 percent increase in the National Farmers Market Directory, which she says is a good indicator of the upward trend in consumers buying local food. USDA’s directory, a database published online at farmersmarkets.usda.gov, identifie

Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, criticized the Senate for not considering the livestock disaster aid package passed by the House earlier today.

Congressmen Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., Steve Womack, R-Ark., and Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., are heading a plea to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) mandate to account for an anticipated corn shortage.

A United States District Court in St. Louis, Missouri decided Wednesday that DuPont Pioneer owes Monsanto $1 billion for patent infringement

Farm groups released a statement to Congress today emphasizing their disappointment in House Republican leadership for deciding not to move forward with the House Agriculture Committee’s bill before adjourning for the August recess.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced two new pieces of disaster assistance for farmers and ranchers impacted by the nation's worsening drought.

USDA delivered its crop progress report this afternoon, with the expected poor conditions for corn and soybeans maintained from last week.

The offices of U.S. Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, celebrated “Meat Monday” today as “a reminder to USDA that it’s supposed to advocate for American agriculture, not against it,” said Grassley’s statement.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $19.3 million in payments for 125 advanced biofuel producers across the country to support the production and expansion of advanced biofuels from a wide variety of non-food sources, including waste products.