By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers will benefit from completion of trade agreements, including pending bi-lateral agreements as well as the Doha Round of WTO....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The issues of renewable fuels and climate change cannot be separated, says Barry Flinchbaugh, professor of agricultural economics and farm policy at Kansas State University....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Aimed at enhancing U.S. food safety after a series of high-profile product warnings and recalls, on July 30, the House passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act (HR 2749) by a vote of 283 to 142....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The climate change legislation now before the Senate has succeeded in doing something neither the nation’s environmental groups or the Bush administration could do: Create fault lines in the farm bloc....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new roster of chairmen and members announced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and ranking member Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., for its subcommittees on July 13 contains some old faces and some new....
Area farmers are facing some big decisions on what to do with their land as hundreds of thousands of acres of USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts are due to expire in the next few months. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has promoted Jonathan Coppess to be administrator of USDA’s Farm Service Agency after Doug Caruso resigned from the post, citing philosophical differences with the Obama administration....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s farm industry associations responded quickly last week to the announcement that an agreement had been reached between the U.S. House Agriculture Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee making the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 more palatable to agriculture....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Greenhouse gas emission legislation will be either a boon to agriculture or a nightmare to farmers and ranchers....
Commissioners and secretaries of agriculture representing 17 southern states and U.S. territories have said the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture (SASDA) formally opposes H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009....
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