The U.S. government has decided to appeal the World Trade Organization ruling against the U.S. program of country-of-origin labeling for red meat. Read More...

The World Trade Organization General Council on Wednesday approved measures to enable full implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement by allowing developing countries to continue to hold stocks of food. Read More...

President Barack Obama today pardoned an Ohio-bred turkey named Cheese today in a ceremony in the grand foyer of the White House — snow and sleet prevented the ceremony from being held outdoors. Read More...

The Agriculture Department has released an infographic on how to prepare a turkey safely and has also announced that its helpline will be open on Thanksgiving Day to take calls. Read More...

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has a released a video about his turkey brine recipe and also posted the recipe and his grandmother’s creamed spinach recipes on his website. Read More...

The Agriculture Department announced this week that nearly 2,500 applicants will receive disaster assistance through the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) for losses suffered from Oct. 1, 2011, through Sept. 30, 2013.
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President Barack Obama would veto the tax extenders bill that Congress is writing because it does not include tax breaks for the middle class, National Journal, DTN/The Progressive Farmer and The New York Times reported on Tuesday. Read More...

The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on “Farmers and Fresh Water: Voluntary Conservation to Protect our Land and Waters,'”Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has announced. Read More...

The National Turkey Federation today unveiled the turkeys that will be pardoned at the White House on Wednesday by President Barack Obama. Read More...

The Food and Drug Administration announced today it has finalized the long-awaited final rules on menu labeling in restaurants and other establishments and that they will be published in the Federal Register on Monday. Read More...

Net farm income is forecast to fall by more than 22 percent this year compared to 2013, but will still be about $16 billion above the previous 10-year average, the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service said in a report issued today. Read More...

A coalition of renewable fuels leaders told congressional staff today that even though the Environmental Protection Agency did not issue volumetric requirements for renewable fuels in 2014, Congress should not change the law. Read More...

The White House announced Friday that Susan “Susie” Morrison will serve as the next executive pastry chef — and that she will tend to the beehives next to First Lady Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden. Read More...

President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration may relieve as many as 450,000 farmworkers and more spouses from fear of deportation — close to twice the original estimate, Farmworker Justice said today. Read More...

The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration Service have released documents providing more information on President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration announced late Thursday. Read More...

Crop Life America has hired Janet Collins as senior vice president of science and regulatory affairs, effective January 5.
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The recent trade facilitation agreement between the United States and India to end their impasse in the World Trade Organization over India’s public stocks of food will help American farmers because it will allow the agreement to improve border procedures to go forward, Darci Vetter, the U.S. chief agricultural trade negotiator said this week. Read More...

National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern said today that the executive action on immigration announced late Thursday by President Barack Obama “will not solve the current or future needs of dairy farmers.” Read More...

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have released calendars showing their schedule for 2015. Read More...

Following the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that it will not issue volumetric requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard this year, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Council of Chain Restaurants and the Environmental Working Group today called on Congress to change or repeal the RFS, while farm groups thanked EPA for not finalizing its proposal, and members of Congress called for certainty. Read More...