Tag: Agriculture

This Aug. 13, 2014 photo, shows an array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site in Primm, Nev.

Beltway Confidential

This could be the weird way our politics are realigning

Liz Mair · February 25, 2019 6:12 pm

A package label identifies a food product that does not contain genetically modified ingredients Friday, March 18, 2016, in Marlborough, Mass.

Trump’s new GMO food labels leave greens fuming

John Siciliano · February 18, 2019 5:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

Birthday butchering

Paul Bedard · February 15, 2019 5:00 am

Liz Cheney and Cory Booker.

‘People Eating Tasty Animals’: Liz Cheney mocks Cory Booker’s meat comments

Claude Thompson · February 13, 2019 5:03 pm

This undated image provided by Michelob ULTRA Pure Gold shows a scene from the company's 2019 Super Bowl NFL football spot starring Zoe Kravitz.

Beltway Confidential

The pseudoscience behind Michelob Ultra Pure Gold organic beer

amanda-zaluckyj · February 4, 2019 8:10 pm

The E.U. prevents non-member countries from labeling cheeses as "Parmesan" or "Asiago" on the grounds that those only come from the specific regions in which the cheeses originated. So U.S. products bearing those names cannot be sold in the E.U. regardless of their quality.

EU trade talks get tripped up before they start

Sean Higgins · February 1, 2019 5:00 am

Two farmers harvest an olive tree near Alyki in the island of Paros, Greece.

US to ‘very aggressively’ fight EU on olives

Sean Higgins · January 29, 2019 10:31 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Energy and Environment

Put corn on your plate, not in your tank

Peter Roff · January 22, 2019 5:00 am

President Trump hold up hats that read "Make Our Farmers Great Again!" as he walks across the South Lawn before boarding Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Roger Marshall: Keep fighting for farmers in trade deals, Mr. President

Sen. Roger Marshall · January 17, 2019 5:00 am

In this Jan. 14, 2019, photo, Trevor Stevens works in the bottling room at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee. The federal shutdown is impacting the federal agency Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which approves licenses for new breweries, some ingredients and labels for beers sent out of state. The brewery is now waiting for the federal agency to approve the "My Turn: Chuck" beer label, so they can sell it out of state.

Beltway Confidential

Big government, bad boss

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 16, 2019 11:09 pm

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in Lebanon, Tenn.

USDA’s Farm Service Agency to reopen temporarily to assist farmers and ranchers

Katelyn Caralle · January 16, 2019 4:54 pm

States to distribute food stamps early

Claude Thompson · January 16, 2019 3:00 am