The SNAP program accounted for 69 percent of all federal food and nutrition assistance spending last fiscal year. An average of 44.2 million people per month participated in the program, three percent fewer than the previous fiscal year and the third consecutive year...
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is urging the Trump administration to roll back overly precautionary regulations to encourage much-needed innovations that produce safer and more sustainable crops and livestock, while still preventing unreasonable...
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway and Ranking Member Collin Peterson have sent a letter to Senate leaders encouraging the swift confirmation of Governor Sonny Perdue as the next Secretary of Agriculture. The letter says America?s farmers, ranchers and...
The House Ag Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management held a public hearing last week on the next Farm Bill, hearing from cotton, rice, peanut, canola, sunflower and sugar producers. Much of the discussion had to do with cotton, and the need to get...
Sixteen farm organizations have written to Senate leadership urging them to confirm Sonny Perdue?s nomination as agriculture secretary before the two-week Easter recess, which begins Friday. The National Corn Growers Association?s vice president of public policy, Jon...
A year ago, North Dakota farmers planted 50,000 more acres of soybeans than spring wheat. According to USDA?s Prospective Plantings report, farmers plan to plant 1.5 million more beans than wheat this year. Money Farm President Luke Swenson isn?t too surprised with...
The Minnesota House has passed the omnibus agriculture policy bill. One of the most controversial measures in the bill is a proposal to protect feedlot operations from nuisance lawsuits. Representative John Lesch, who represents St. Paul, said this becomes a private...
The Federal Trade Commission has approved ChemChina?s purchase of Syngenta. The decision comes with the call for ChemChina to divest of three pesticides that have overlap between Syngenta and ChemChina. Those products include the burndown herbicide, Paraquat. The...
Texas Congressman Michael Conaway will now oversee the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. California Representative Devin Nunes is facing accusations of possible ethics violations and will no longer...
Telvent DTN is being sold to TBG AG, which is a private holding firm based in Switzerland. For the past six years, the agriculture information service has been owned by a French company, Schneider Electric. This transaction also includes Progressive Farmer magazine....
