Articles by Sarah Gonzalez

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14--Livestock and poultry producers gathered in front of the House Agricultural Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry today to contest policies they say are driving feed costs to record highs.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8- The House Agriculture Livestock, Poultry and Dairy Subcommittee held a dairy policy hearing today in an effort to review current USDA dairy programs. While many legislators agree the volatile dairy market is in need of a stronger safety net, Congress has yet to find an approach

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7- In an effort to avoid insolvency, the Unites States Postal Service will attempt to make major reforms, including reducing the number of postal-operated retail facilities from 32,000 to fewer than 20,000 by 2015.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved additional rules under the Dodd-Frank Act during its nineteenth open rules meeting today. Today’s two proposed rules to Title VII set a timeline for the market to comply with new swaps regulations.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7- The Senate Committee on Appropriations approved the FY 2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill today, at a decrease of $138 million below the Fiscal Year 2011. Conservation programs faced the largest cuts, while priorities went to programs directly related to public health and nu

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31- Hurricane Irene’s high winds and excessive rain caused power outages, flooding, and agricultural damage across much of the East Coast. Many reports indicate that tobacco growers are suffering total losses in North Carolina and Virginia, and overall losses are predicted to cost

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30- The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) released the Farm Income and Costs report today, which indicates that 2011 net farm income will increase more than 30 percent from 2010 while government payments will be decreased 17 percent.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30- The Chesapeake Bay Watershed, an area under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce water pollution, will become a site of conservation experimentation through a collection of grants announced by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service on Aug. 22.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22--USDA announced today that 18 telecommunication recipients will share more than $103 million in funding for 23 projects to provide broadband services to rural communities.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) released a report detailing how farmers altered their land-use decisions in response to the higher demand for corn-based ethanol. Rising gasoline prices and new bioenergy policies stimulated the increase in ethanol production by nine bil