Articles by Derrick Cain

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and several agricultural groups reiterated their opposition today to Japanese tariff demands as part of the negotiations over a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.

The House approved legislation (H.R. 3189) today, on a mostly party-line vote of 238-174, which would prevent federal agencies from requiring privately held water rights to be turned over to the federal government.

The House Agriculture Committee adopted today, by voice vote, its budget views and estimates letter, which outlines the committee’s budget and policy recommendations for the agencies and programs under its jurisdiction for fiscal year 2015. The committee also approved legislation related to pestici

Stakeholders in the water resources development game continue to closely watch for a final agreement among conferees trying to resolve differences between House and Senate bills that would reauthorize and reform the programs.

While USDA’s Office of Inspector General has made recent progress in addressing waste, fraud, and abuse among programs administered by the department’s agencies, more attention needs to be paid to oversight in most USDA agencies, Inspector General Phyllis Fong told a House panel Wednesday.

While the three nominees for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), including for the chairmanship, received a warm bipartisan welcome from the Senate Agriculture Committee today, two senators raised concerns that none of the nominees have experience in the agriculture sector.

Two top House lawmakers wrote a letter today to President Obama expressing concern over EPA’s plan to clarify the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act.

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2014 - President Obama released a $3.9 trillion fiscal year 2015 budget today to fund government departments, including USDA and EPA.

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2014 - President Obama released a $3.9 trillion fiscal year 2015 budget today to fund government departments, including USDA and EPA.