USDA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will contract with Mortenson Construction to build a New World screwworm sterile fly production facility in Edinburg, Texas.
Small and mid-sized farmers could reap $5.6 billion in additional revenue a year if Food is Medicine programs were large enough to reach all the Americans who need them, a new report from the ...
The Agriculture Department's one farmer, one file initiative envisions new ways to report crop acreage and develop conservation plans, and a wholesale overhaul of the department's IT infrastructure, ...
The Trump administration will investigate dozens of countries in two new probes into partners’ unfair trade practices, a top trade official told reporters Wednesday, which could be used to justify new ...
The U.S. is at risk of losing its edge in agricultural innovation to China without an uptick in research and development investments, a new report finds.
Senate Ag Committee Chairman John Boozman is vowing to keep working with fellow panel members to get more financial aid to struggling farmers. Boozman acknowledged at a hearing Tuesday on finding new ...
Alexa Fox joined Monument Advocacy as vice president on the food and agriculture team. Audra Weeks, who was deputy chief of staff for policy at the Agriculture Department, departed USDA. Barbara ...
China is expanding its economic relationship with Africa while U.S. trade policy is at a turning point, notes a University of Illinois analysis.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he ended a “war on protein with the Trump administration's new dietary guidelines and food pyramid. For some farmers it feels like he’s ...
GOP Senate Ag Committee lawmakers are considering attaching additional support for U.S. ag producers to a future supplemental funding package to give the Pentagon more money for its Iran operations.
A provision in the House aims to standardize specialty crop disaster aid by directing USDA to base payments on producers’ prior-year sales. Some non-full-time farmers could see payments capped at $155 ...
Dozens of medical schools have committed to expanding nutrition education in their curricula. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said the initiative will result in more ...