Articles by Sarah Gonzalez

Although major agriculture groups oppose the effort, House Republicans defend voting on a split farm bill as a last resort for passing farm policy reform.

Agricultural leaders wanting to bring young people into farming with skills in communication and policy could consider a model established by an English counterpart and founder of the Henry Plumb Foundation.

European farmers claim that they are using antibiotics in animal production much less frequently and at lower doses, but the practice and the data still varies widely from farm to farm and country to country.

Illinois Farm Bureau members visited Rondeel Eggs in Holland during their Animal Care European Union (EU) Study Tour, where they witnessed the results of meeting precise consumer demands in animal production. They learned this week that round is better when it comes to premium living conditions for

Illinois Farm Bureau members covered 400 miles of England this week, where they visited poultry, pig and cattle farms of various sizes and observed that customer perceptions of animal production are driving the regulatory and legislative policies in the United Kingdom.

May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois’ Department of Entomology spoke to Hill staffers recently on the benefits that mapping the bee genome are offering in the investigation of reduced bee populations.

Monsanto officials said today that evidence in the investigation of genetically engineered wheat plants found in an Oregon field last month suggests an intentional contamination.

The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved an agricultural spending bill for fiscal year 2014, which provides $20.9 billion to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Agricultural Guestworker “AG” Act in a vote of 20-16. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., sponsored the bill, which replaces the existing H-2A agricultural visa program with a new H-2C program.

British author and environmentalist Mark Lynas described his transformation from an anti-GMO activist to pro-GMO speaker during the Danforth Plant Science Center’s Seeds of Change event Thursday morning