The European Commission will temporarily suspend use of three types of neonicotinoid pesticides due to concerns the products are endangering bee populations....More
Neonics and politics. Biotech lies. Cotton and skin. Passing the baton. Ag’s ultimate challenge. Bees run the world. Those stories and more to start your day....More
House and Senate bills would expand opportunities and remove barriers for beginning farmers and those who wish to pursue a career in agriculture....More
The USDA has renewed a historic agreement with U.S. dairy producers to accelerate the adoption of innovative waste-to-energy projects and energy efficiency improvements on U.S. dairy farms....More
Matt Fannin, an associate professor in the LSU AgCenter Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, has been appointed as associate director for analytic and academic programs in the Rural Policy Research Institute....More
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., will be the featured guest and keynote speaker for the May 17 annual meeting of Delta Council to be held on the Delta State University campus in Cleveland, Miss....More
The USDA is extending for five years its agreement to work with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other partners to help develop a viable biofuel for the aviation industry....More
Having been a driving force behind the Senate’s earlier introduction of immigration reform, on Wednesday afternoon (April 17) a broad coalition of agricultural interests convened to explain and back the legislation....More
FDA Commissioner told that catfish producers believe imported fish should be held to the same inspection, certification and labeling standards applied to domestically-produced catfish....More
"For this great nation to have a future we must invest today and every day in its wealth-producing capacity, one pillar of which is and always has been our inland waterway system." -- Peter Stephaich, chairman of Campbell Transportation Company....More
On Tuesday (April 16), the EPA’s senior agricultural counsel said clean energy and building bridges with the farming/ranching community will be priorities going forward....More
Some Mid-South farmers will need to kill surviving plants from March-planted corn so they can re-plant those fields. There are several options to consider in removing those plants....More
The USDA is now accepting applications for federal REAP funds to help gasoline retailers install blender pumps designed to give consumers flexibility and choice in the ethanol blends they use....More
The White House budget proposal for 2014 would do away with direct payments to farmers and slash funding for the USDA. The 6 percent proposed cut to USDA coffers joins other proposals such as lowering crop insurance subsidies and conservation program funding....More
The U.S. catfish industry is displeased with the Obama fiscal 2014 budget, which calls for the abolishment of a yet-to-be-implemented USDA-FSIS catfish inspection regime....More
As crop insurers prepare for the farm bill and funding deliberations in the future, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) has released a detailed question-and-answer resource laying out the facts about crop insurance and dispelling some of the most common arguments against crop insurance put forth by its critics....More
