Category Archives: Agriculture News

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to complete formal repeal of the Waters of the U.S. Rule in April 2018. Politico reports an updated regulatory agenda from the White House also shows a replac...

More than 70 agricultural groups sent a letter to congressional leaders asking for an increase in the agricultural budget for the 2018 Ag Appropriations Bill that Congress is developing. The Hagstrom ...

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...