Category Archives: Agriculture News

The Senate tax bill passed over the weekend does not include a deduction that farm cooperatives lobbied to keep in the tax reform package. The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives says the Domestic...

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association has helped the industry secure several wins in Washington, D.C., including against the "Waters of the United States" rule and the Bureau of Land Management's ...

The Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service is mailing the 2017 Census of Agriculture to the nation's producers this week. Conducted once every five years, the census aims...

New findings from the Pew Research Center show 56% of Americans believe the North American Free Trade Agreement is good for the United States. Just 33% of respondents to a Pew Research poll say the tr...

The Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at Fresno State unveiled a major upgrade to its mechanized agriculture laboratory. Improvement were made possible by a $250,000 gift by Dr. J...

USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue makes a two day visit to California. Perdue was in Modesto on Sunday holding a town hall meeting with local producers hosted by California Farm Bureau. On Monday morning he...

The American Farm Bureau says the House Ways and Means Committee tax overhaul plan provides a blueprint for tax reform. The plan is essentially a set of promotional documents, with many details unacco...

A study by Florida State University shows consumers regularly mix up food labels. Florida State University's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences says consumers mix up foods labeled "organic" a...

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway offered his approval to a bill that would bring reforms to agriculture labor. Earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee approves the Ag Act, wh...

The Federal Government clarifies its position on Governor Brown's twin tunnels project. A day after the Associated Press reports that the U.S. Interior Department is not supporting the twin tunnels pr...