Category Archives: Agriculture News

In a 60 - 38 vote, the U.S. Senate has sent Trade Promotion Authority to the President's desk as a standalone bill not packaged with Trade Adjustment Assistance. Trade Adjustment Assistance also passe...

An annual survey of restaurant industry chains suggest that the burger is losing ground to the fast-casual coffee shop concept, according to Meatingplace. The "Chain Industry Restaurant Review" from G...

Scores of corn growers from more than a dozen states will converge in Kansas City, Kansas, Thursday. The EPA is holding a public hearing on its proposal to cut nearly four billion gallons of corn etha...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a 66-year-old program that lets the government take raisins away from farmers to help reduce supply and boost market prices is unconstitutional. I...

The Head of Bayer AG's CropScience unit told Bloomberg this week, a potential merger of Monsanto and Syngenta would prompt an industry review. Liam Condon said "there's only six research and developme...

The House granted the president authority to enter and finalize free trade agreements.Now it's up to the Senate to take up the measure again as well.House lawmakers voted 218-208 to approve Trade Prom...

While House Speaker John Boehner can bring up the current Trade Package before July 30th, the Hill reports GOP leadership in the House is also considering a standalone Trade Promotion Authority bill. ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A group of public water agencies that serves millions of Californians asked the state on Tuesday to order farmers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to stop irrigating the...

A bill slashing Environmental Protection Agency funding and blocking several of its new regulations is scheduled to pass through the House Appropriations Committee, this week. The Hill Reports Republi...

In a news release, Gar Tootelian Inc. kicked off its campaign to call California businesses owners andtheir employees into action to help solve California's water crisis."The blame for California's wa...