Category Archives: Agriculture News

The Senate Agriculture Committee’s first hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. Chairman Pat Roberts says it’s been one year since the passage of the farm bill and the committee has a responsib...

Growth Energy, an organization that supports the ethanol industry, has filed comments outlining its opposition to the proposed amendments by California’s Air Resources Board to the California Lo...

Congress is one step closer to securing Section 179 small business expensing permanently with the passage of America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015. American Farm Bureau President Bob S...

The American Meat Institute, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and six other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in ...

Senators Amy Klobuchar, Mike Enzi, Debbie Stabenow, Jeff Flake, Patrick Leahy and Dick Durbin introduced the Freedom to Export to Cuba Act of 2015 , which would lift the trade embargo and boost U.S. a...

According to World Ag Expo organizers, valley school students in grades 9th through the 12th were offered guided tours of the 2015 World Ag Expo.Attendees from all over the world come to World Ag Expo...

USDA through its Rural Energy for America Program is making more than 280-million dollars available to eligible rural agricultural producers and small business owners to purchase and install renewable...

The World Ag Expo opens its gates at 9am for the annual three day show tomorrow starting on February 10th in Tulare, California. Organizers say it's the largest annual agricultural exposition of ...

70 food and agricultural organizations are urging Congress to renew Trade Promotion Authority legislation. The groups say the farmers, ranchers, food and ag companies they represent heavily depend on ...

The Agriculture Workforce Coalition has called on Congress to enact legislation to address the labor crisis facing American agriculture before implementing a mandatory E-Verify system. National Counci...