Tag: Agriculture

Agriculture has a long history in Hawaii, usually in large, plantation-style farms that export pineapples and other tropical fruit to the mainland and abroad. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Hawaii starts to look beyond the pineapple

Kyle Feldscher · May 23, 2016 4:01 am

‘Make a grocery list’: Feds teach people how to shop for food

Pete Kasperowicz · May 17, 2016 8:58 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks with young parents during a roundtable discussion at the Family Care Center in Lexington, Ky., on May 10. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Clinton wages ‘ugly-looking’ tax campaign

Washington Examiner Staff · May 16, 2016 4:01 am

Serenity Acres Goat Dairy Farm in Pinetta, Fla., is naming one of its "prized" goats after Malia Obama. The farm also invites Malia Obama to spend her gap year there before she starts at Harvard in 2017. (AP Photo)

Fla. farm names goat after Malia Obama, invites her to spend gap year there

Jason Russell · May 13, 2016 5:45 pm

USDA provided an activity guide with advice on how to stay fit during the summer when kids are out of school. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)

Feds teaching families how to do the moonwalk

Pete Kasperowicz · May 10, 2016 9:53 pm

The Secretary of Agriculture appoints board members, and the federal government collects mandatory dues from all watermelon producers except for small producers. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Beltway Confidential

Agriculture subsidy agencies stick FOIA exemption into spending bill

Timothy P. Carney · April 29, 2016 7:15 pm

The House Appropriations Committee released legislation Tuesday that provides $79.7 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner File)

GOP proposes $1.2 billion cut to food stamp program

Pete Kasperowicz · April 13, 2016 4:04 pm

Duke Energy announced Monday it will buy excrement from pigs and poultry for a new waste output center. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Energy and Environment

Pig, poultry waste to provide renewable energy in North Carolina

Kyle Feldscher · March 21, 2016 8:29 pm

In this photo made Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015, Ailu Xu, a graduate student from China, posts a sign directing Chinese students to a new student orientation meeting at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. The U.S. Census Bureau research shows immigrants from China and India, many with student or work visas, have overtaken Mexicans as the largest groups coming into the U.S. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Labor Dept. blames Congress for immigrant worker visa delays

Sean Higgins · March 15, 2016 7:42 pm

Trump's tweet about Idaho illustrates a lack of understanding about the state and its famous export, the potato. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow/File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s potato gaffe

David Freddoso · March 8, 2016 3:40 pm

"I think it is fair to ask, why would the president cut funding for the Corps of Engineers at a time when more investment is needed," he said. (AP File Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Lamar Alexander: Obama budget could be ‘catastrophic’ to riverways

John Siciliano · March 2, 2016 10:17 pm

Environmental and clean water proponents lauded the Supreme Court's decision on limiting Chesapeake Bay pollution as a historic victory. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Supreme Court denies challenge to EPA’s bay cleanup plan

John Siciliano · February 29, 2016 6:42 pm