Agri-Pulse staff

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Bart Chilton released a statement yesterday indicating that although the MF Global investigation is progressing, the ultimate location of missing customer funds is still a mystery.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a consent order of permanent injunction. The CFTC charged that the defendants defrauded grain elevators and cooperatives in Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and South Dakota

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced loans and grants for agricultural producers and rural small businesses. The funding is provided through USDA Rural Development's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).

meeting the world’s future food needs is a “complex undertaking,” Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind. said during a speech at the New America Foundation. Other countries, particularly Africa, must do much more to grow their own food, Lugar pointed out.

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).