Impasse over a farm bill draft has deepened, Grocery store sales growth in January were up 4.5%, the biggest monthly year-over-year gain since January 2015.
USDA official met with resistants about SNAP benefits to food boxes. There is a new name for DowDuPont. There is possible changes to the U.S. biofuel mandate.
USDA wants input about how to push unemployed, able-bodied adults who get SNAP benefits into the workforce. Syngenta buys satellite imagery company FarmShots,
The Trump administration wants changes in the SNAP Program. NAFTA nations stressing that continuing duty-free agricultural trade is critical to their success.
The SNAP Program is hotly debated as the 2018 Farm Bill takes shape. An increase of awareness about the opioid epidemic and its impact on farming communities.
**The Western Governors’ Association is calling for changes to the Endangered Species Act, including giving the states a bigger role in deciding when animals should be listed, and when they can be delisted.
The resolution approved at last week’s WGA annual summer meeting was not unanimous, as Democratic governors Jerry Brown of California and Jay Inslee of Washington, who did not attend the confer
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas said his genetically modified food labeling bill is not ready. Roberts hopes his bill will be bipartisan, but he said what he introduces will be “a chairman’s mark” that can be amended...