Category Archives: Agriculture News

More than 280 organizations, including the National Farmers Union are urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to reject the repeal of Country of Origin Labeling. The coalition says polls s...

National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson encourages House lawmakers to consider the impacts that trade agreements have had on the domestic economy and vote no on TPA. Johnson says the overall tr...

The World Trade Organization found in favor again of the United States in its challenge of India's bans on a number of agricultural products, including American poultry. USDA Deputy Under Secretary Al...

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USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has extended the deadline to submit proposals on the New Organic Promotion Order to July 20th. Submissions will be considered before the agency publishes a propos...

The House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management held a hearing on the financial health of farm country. Chairman Rick Crawford says America's farmers and ranchers ha...

Foster Farms is introducing two new product lines, Foster Farms Certified Organic and Foster Farms Simply Raised antibiotic-free chicken at major retailers throughout the West, making the family-owned...

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is seeking an additional 800,000 acres of highly environmentally sensitive land to be enrolled in Conservation Reserve Program under certain wetland and wildlife initiatives t...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its third quarter Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade recently and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the strong pace of American ag exports continues. with a tr...