Articles by Aarian Marshall

Immigration” appears to be the issue of the week, and as Congress prepares to present its reform plans to the public, even Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is getting into the act.

White House residents and workers re-discovered their green thumbs yesterday – and just in time for spring – when First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the fifth annual planting of the White House Kitchen Garden.

Maryland is one step closer to a regulatory certainty bill after the state’s Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee voted last week to move the legislation to the Senate floor

– The National Museum of American History unveiled yesterday a new website that the public can use to upload their agricultural stories and histories

Though yesterday’s hearing at the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry was meant to focus on the local economies surrounding the National Forest Service (NFS), “sequester” became the word of the day as lawmakers drilled U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell on the cut

A New York State Supreme Court judge yesterday blocked a New York City ban on sodas lager than 16 oz., arguing that New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and the state’s Department of Health do not have the authority to institute such a ban.

Rumors that the President’s FY 2014 budget will cut the Food for Peace program have been flying for weeks – and Wednesday, senators began to respond.

There’s no crystal ball for the agricultural biotechnology industry, a number of insiders divulged during a Resources for the Future panel on Tuesday in Washington,

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack responded Tuesday to trade associations that had criticized USDA for threatening widespread Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) furloughs should sequestration take effect next month.

he European Union will begin to accept U.S. imports of live swine and beef washed with lactic acid, Ambassador Islam Siddiqui, Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), noted yesterday.