Though support for the U.S. sugar industry runs high among legislators, partly due to the fact that Big Sugar continuously More…
A battle between the pork industry and the state of California will soon make national news as the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether a state prohibition of slaughtering nonambulatory or “downer” livestock preempts federal law.
In the run-up to last month’s Senate vote that likely denied the USDA the right to limit potatoes in school lunches, U.S. Sen. Al Franken and eight other Democratic senators from potato-growing regions pushed hard on the federal agency.
Following a ruling Friday by a federal judge, thousands of farmers who endured racial discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s should start receiving portions of a $1.25 billion settlement.
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in his written opinion that the More…
One thing you can say about a kid who goes to bed hungry is that he will wake up the same way. Odds are he’ll go to school hungry as well. Repeat that cycle a few times a week and you’ve got a problem. Experts say it is a problem More…
An updated forecast by the USDA’s Economic Research Service shows that net farm income for 2011 will reach $103.6 billion, up $24.5 billion from 2010. All three measures of farm sector earnings (net farm income, net cash income, and net value added) are forecast to rise more than 20 percent More…
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Florida tomorrow to tour the Winding Waters Wetland Preserve in West Palm Beach and to announce several Everglades restoration projects. #
More than a year ago, in Ankeny, the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Agriculture began an unprecedented joint journey into possible agricultural sector antitrust violations. The series of five public workshops ended in December 2010 but no findings have yet been released.
This week a coalition of More…
Following revelations of their involvement in the war on public unions in Wisconsin, the once-anonymous Koch Industries executive vice president David Koch and his brother Charles have in short time become boogeymen of the left, the liberal answer to the center of so many conservative conspiracies, George Soros More…
Ryan Terrien liked digging his hands into a mound of compost and knowing how hot it should feel. He liked setting ladybugs free in the greenhouse and watching them devour aphids that plagued row upon row of seedlings. Most of all, he liked pulling a carrot up from its bushy More…
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