The Senate was hard at work Tuesday considering dozens of farm bill amendments in an hours-long “vote-o-rama” that included repealing a 2008 farm bill provision to create a catfish inspection
If the USDA wants us to “eat healthy” by filling up half of our plates with fruits and vegetables, then why does the Senate’s proposed version of the 2012
The Environmental Working Group announced on Thursday that a group of food and agriculture policy leaders are forming a new nonprofit that “for the first time will hold lawmakers in
Senator and former presidential contender John McCain (R-AZ) is at war against “senseless” measures in the farm bill and the pending catfish inspection program is on his list of top
A bipartisan group of senators is hoping to add what would be the first federal standards for livestock housing and welfare to the Farm Bill, which the upper chamber is
Congressman Ron Paul, R-TX, and his son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, are giving the country’s raw milk advocates multiple reasons for some hope. First Rep. Paul, who continues to
Senators have filed more than 80 amendments to the Farm Bill, which the upper chamber is expected to debate this week. The thousand plus page bill — which aims to save
Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service could face cuts under a new budget proposal put
The food industry — including dairy, livestock, poultry and eggs and all food processing — spent about $40 million on lobbying the federal government last year, according to the Center for Responsive
This week Congress begins hearings on the 2012 farm bill, the massive piece of legislation that gets updated about every five years and undergirds America’s entire food supply, but
In discussions about government and agriculture, attention tends to focus on issues such as the billions spent on commodity supports. But the Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) – a branch of the