Tag: Agriculture

A worker milks a cow at the Alvorada Ranch in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Maurilio Cheli)

Energy and Environment

Enviros worry Brazilian beef imports could serve up a side of Amazon tree-cutting

Zack Colman · July 1, 2015 4:01 am

n the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is scheduled to release decisions with sweeping ramifications. The rulings on same-sex marriage and Obamacare subsidies are the most anticipated. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

The last three Supreme Court decisions we’re waiting for

Philip Klein · June 26, 2015 3:30 pm

Irrigation pipes sit along a dried irrigation canal in California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Energy and Environment

California Republicans propose drought relief bill

Zack Colman · June 25, 2015 6:27 pm

A school lunch featuring a grilled cheese sandwich on whole grain bread served with a southwestern-style corn salad, fresh carrots and either canned pears or apple sauce is shown Monday, May 5, 2014, at Mirror Lake Elementary School in Federal Way, Wash., south of Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Bland school lunch? Bring salt and pepper

Nathan Rubbelke · June 24, 2015 8:38 pm

Blighted property lies June 27, 2005 in downtown New London, Connecticut.Â Today, the land that was once the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Conn., is a field of rubble. The brilliant plans of the powerful planners failed. They had torn down a neighborhood to make it nicer for a new Pfizer plant. Pfizer left the plant a few years later. Nothing has taken the place of Fort Trumbull.Â (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Property rights are for the little guy: Raisins and Kelo at 10 years

Timothy P. Carney · June 23, 2015 9:03 pm

(By Scott Ehardt, via Wikimedia Commons)

Long live property rights, down with Uncle Sam’s raisin cartel

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

Raisin farmer Marvin Horne stands in a field of grapevines planted in 1918 next to his home April, 10, 2006 in Kerman, Calif. (AP Photo)Â

Supreme Court: Raisin rules violate property rights

Robert King · June 22, 2015 3:44 pm

Throughout the summer, wildlife biologists conduct nighttime surveys to learn more about the many bats that live in the Coconino National Forest. Scientists gather information about species, population, and habitat. This bat from the genus Myotis is having its wing examined. (USDA Forest Service,Â Coconino National Forest)

USDA festival highlights importance of bats and bees

Nathan Rubbelke · June 19, 2015 10:09 pm

A pair of Canada Geese. (Getty Image)

Bird flu hits Michigan

Robert King · June 8, 2015 8:49 pm

Big school districts reject USDA school lunch recipes, too costly, not ‘student friendly’

Paul Bedard · June 1, 2015 11:59 pm

Hillary Clinton said that the Renewable Fuel Standard should stick around, but that "we also can't ignore significant changes to the energy landscape" since it was expanded in 2007 and that the program must get "back on track." (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

Hillary Clinton wades into corn ethanol debate

Zack Colman · May 30, 2015 4:01 am

(Image courtey Twitter/@MyPlate)

Government s’mores: Strawberries instead of chocolate, yogurt instead of marshmallows

Pete Kasperowicz · May 25, 2015 6:49 pm