Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

The Internal Revenue Service today issued the 2012 optional standard mileage rates

the National FFA Foundation raised a record $16 million through corporate and private financial contributions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 – Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson gave the keynote address at the U.S.-Russia Business Council’s Agribusiness Forum in Omaha this morning. He applauded the progress the United States and Russia have made as economic trade partners, but also pushed Russia to end practices that put A

Negotiators at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 17th Conference of the Parties found enough common ground to strike a deal on climate change, albeit one with plenty of details yet to be negotiated.

DECEMBER, Nov. 9- The season-average farm prices for corn, wheat and soybeans, soybean meal and soybean oil are reduced in this month’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE ) report released by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS). Ending stocks for corn and wheat and soybeans r

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a federal advisory committee to guide the creation of a 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC).

USDA published a final rule today to implementing 2008 farm bill provisions to protect contract poultry growers and pork producers under the Packers and Stockyards Administration Act.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7- USDA announced a new range of tactics yesterday to combat trafficking in USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – formerly known as food stamps.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8- Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) are introducing legislation to fully fund the CFTC so it can regulate the risky financial transactions that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, the recent collapse of MF Global and the