Farm groups that have not played a major role in the debate over the recommendations that the agriculture committees will send to the super committee on deficit reduction have been inundating Capitol Hill this week with detailed recommendations. Read More...

The National Association of Wheat Growers has hired Benjamin Bell as director of farm policy, crop insurance, transportation and trade issues. Read More...

U.S. Wheat Associates has hired Casey Chumrau as a market analyst on global wheat market trends and activity, produce weekly price reports and provide contract, quality specification and price assistance to U.S. wheat exporters and importers. Read More...

PARIS — The wheat research initiative that the agriculture ministers from the G20 countries launched at their meeting here on June 23 is strongly supported by U.S. growers and appears likely to put wheat research on a faster track. Read More...

Scientists will fight wheat rust from a new state-of-the art Agriculture Department greenhouse at the University of Minnesota, but a key researcher says more money is needed if the fungal disease is to be fought successfully in Africa before it reaches North America. Read More...