Ag Policy Blog

Congress is dealing with conflict regarding catfish inspections that impacts the view on quality of food-safety inspections, domestic farming market and the trade relationship with countries such as Vietnam.

North Dakota voters resoundingly rejected a legislative attempt to loosen the state's corporate farming law with a vote in Tuesday's primary election.

Leaders from several farm groups testified Tuesday before the House Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee about a range of trade barriers and opportunities. The main focus may have been the prospects for the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, but testimony included...

A bi-partisan group of 102 members of Congress wrote U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez on Friday demanding that Citizenship and Immigration Services fix the administrative backlog of the H-2A agricultural worker program.

What's a GMO? Well, is a can of soup a GMO food if it contains ingredients from biotech crops, but also contains beef broth? That's where we are in the GMO labeling debate right now.

A pair of U.S. senators are publicly asking the Chinese government to approve biotech traits that in some cases have been in China's regulatory pipeline for years.

Hillary Clinton claims that if elected president her administration would work to increase productivity and profitability on family farms.

The shock from Friday's monthly jobs report is leading Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to recalibrate when it comes to raising interest rates immediately.

The EU is taking another step into a greater realm of red tape with its regulatory precautionary principle as the EU Commission grapples with the scientific renewal of glyphosate.