Tag: Agriculture

Environmentalism Is Big Business

Tom Nassif · October 6, 2016 2:00 pm

Greens Make Green

Tom Nassif · September 30, 2016 5:15 am

Jim Inhofe argues the EPA and the Corps are using the broadest possible claims of jurisdiction to enforce environmental regulations. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Inhofe calls on Dems to back off support for EPA water rule

Kyle Feldscher · September 20, 2016 2:00 pm

USDA spokesman Matthew Herrick said that the department had received "several anonymous messages." (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

National Security

USDA closes offices in five states after anonymous threat

Kelly Cohen · August 30, 2016 3:53 pm

To play, kids simply need to mark off each time their parents buy a healthy food, until they get five across. (Photo by Casey Rodgers/Invision for ALDI/AP Images)

Feds encourage parents to play ‘grocery store bingo’ with kids

Pete Kasperowicz · August 24, 2016 4:22 pm

According to the USDA, dairy producers are struggling because of low market price, slowing consumer demand. (AP Photo/Bryna Godar)

Feds to cut the cheese surplus

Mariana Barillas · August 23, 2016 9:22 pm

Former governors Jim Gilmore of Virginia and Rick Perry of Texas are two former primary rivals named as advisers on Donald Trump's agricultural committee. (AP Photo)

GOP govs, former 2016 rivals on Trump agricultural advisory board

Ryan Lovelace · August 16, 2016 3:32 pm

Most of the United Kingdom's agricultural counties voted "leave." (Suzanne Plunkett/Bloomberg News)

Brussels has a lot to learn from the Brexit vote

Cristian Busoi · July 27, 2016 4:04 am

With prices low for corn, soy and sugar cane, there is less incentive to produce the crops required to make biofuels. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

World Bank: Next victim of cheap oil is renewable fuel

John Siciliano · July 26, 2016 11:37 pm

Landowners in 12 states will be eligible to participate in the program. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Energy and Environment

Dept. of Agriculture dumps $49 million into project to make wetlands wetter

Anna Giaritelli · July 8, 2016 12:44 am

The CDC found that people working in farming or fishing had the highest rate of 84 suicides per 100,000 people. (iStock photo)

Farmers and fishermen most likely to commit suicide

Robert King · June 30, 2016 5:53 pm

Border Patrol officials seized 14 rolls of Mexican bologna from a driver attempting to enter the U.S. from Mexico at the El Paso, Texas checkpoint on Thursday. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

U.S. Customs seizes 14 huge rolls of bologna

Anna Giaritelli · June 11, 2016 2:07 am