Ag Policy Blog

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the rules USDA has to follow hiring Farm Service Agency offices is making it hard to fill positions at local USDA service centers.

The House passed a bill late Wednesday that would overhaul the H-2A visa program, allowing guest workers to stay in the country longer, and would legalize hundreds of thousands of farm workers now in the country illegally. More than 300 agricultural groups endorsed the bill, but...

National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson on Tuesday issued a statement ending his 11-year tenure as head of the organization.

The House of Representatives will consider the Farm Workforce Modernization Act this week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., announced late Friday. Hoyer did not list a date for consideration of the bill, but the House Rules Committee has announced it will meet on...

Japan's upper legislative body, the Diet, has approved the U.S.-Japan trade agreement that President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed recently, and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and farm leaders praised the decision.

Hemp has become all the rage, but several issues have come up over the past few months including over production and problems with credit. Along with that, the FDA is more directly scrutinizing sales of products with CBD oil because the FDA has not approved them for sale.

My sources tell me the vast majority of turkeys will be eaten, and not pardoned, on Thanksgiving.

The U.S. trade deficit with China could be cut by nearly 6% if the U.S. could ship pork into the country with no tariffs, according to National Pork Producers Council.

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Steve Censky said Thursday farmers and ranchers will need a combination of technology and soil health practices to increase the "sustainable intensification" of food production to both feed a growing population and face a changing climate.

More than 300 farm groups sent a letter Monday to House leaders demonstrating their support for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill set for a markup Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee.

Members of Congress on Thursday wrote the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking to alert the commission to the need for a continued supply of propane to Midwest states.

Dean Foods said it had lined up about $850 million in bankruptcy financing to continue operating while it arranges a deal. The dairy processor has fallen victim to several changes in the dairy industry.

Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., John Thune, R-S.D., and Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, introduced bipartisan legislation last week to ensure the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s chief drone policy committee includes representation for agriculture, forestry and rural America.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters Thursday the second round of trade aid for 2019 could come later this month.

The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee has some concerns about inequities in USDA's Market Facilitation Program.

Midwest farmers see the U.S.-China trade war as having a long-term negative impact on agriculture, but could enhance the relationship because the two countries and translate into some type of positive outcome -- even if it hurts their own farm operations over the next...

Livestock haulers could get a reprieve from federal Hours of Service rules under a bill introduced in Congress on Wednesday.

Both the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the U.S. Cattlemen's Association praised the introduction of the Real Marketing Edible Artificials Truthfully (MEAT) Act.

Argentine voters went to the polls on Sunday to put the Peronists back in power and throw out President Mauricio Macri, a politician favored by the nation's farmers.

The prospect of Congress approving the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement sometime in 2019 appears to be eroding away, according to some champions of the trade agreement.