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The debt limit agreement between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has one more step to go before heading to the White House.

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf is due this week to reveal his response to demands that he shore up the leadership of the agency’s food programs.

Braga Fresh has promoted Colby Pereira to chief operating officer and Jesús Valencia is the new regional director of agronomy for Corbet Scientific.

Keith Jones has joined the staff at Cornerstone Government Affairs as a senior consultant and President Joe Biden has resubmitted nominations to the Senate for Margo Schlanger and Stacy Dean.

In a pessimistic outlook for the 2023 farm economy, CoBank analysts say the upcoming year will be shaped by political gridlock in Washington and financial conditions that soften the American economy into a period of economic contraction.

Even as the Federal Reserve struggles to get inflation under control, the agriculture and energy sectors “have gained unexpected levels of pricing power” due to lingering global supply challenges, according to a quarterly report from CoBank.

More and more residents of rural America are working in industries outside of agriculture, a new report concludes.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack told a supporter of e-RINs for electricity produced from biomass and biogas to look for action this summer, emails obtained by Agri-Pulse show.

The Senate is back in session after the August recess, and there’s a full slate of committee activity today.

The UK sent its top agriculture official to the U.S. this week in an effort to lay the groundwork for an eventual trade agreement with the U.S.