Tag: Agriculture

Food stamp fraud is so widespread that Government Accounting Office investigators found dozens of examples merely by searching online e-commerce sites like Craigslist.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Online food stamp fraud growing, GAO reports

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2014 7:08 pm

North Dakota winter wheat crop hurt by disease

Washington Examiner · August 25, 2014 1:17 pm

Seed company sued by migrant workers in Michigan

Washington Examiner · August 25, 2014 12:20 am

The Environmental Protection Agency sent the Office of Management and Budget a long-awaited proposal for review that would set the federal target for blending biofuels into gasoline. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Lobbying fight kicks off as ethanol rules sent to the White House

Zack Colman · August 22, 2014 6:08 pm

$Which uses more water, growing vegetables or hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and natural gas? (AP Photo)$ Beltway Confidential

Does it take more water to frack an oil well or keep a golf course green?

Mark Tapscott · August 19, 2014 12:18 pm

Michigan agriculture group launches mapping tool

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 1:32 pm

FILE - This Oct. 7, 2008 file photo shows a puppy rescued from a puppy mill, north of Montreal, Canada at the SPCA in Montreal. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a regulation that will require all puppies imported to the United States to be at least 6 months old, healthy and up to date on vaccinations. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson, File)

USDA: Puppy imports must be healthy, 6 months old

Sue Manning · August 15, 2014 11:53 pm

House speaker says farmers’ take illegal losses

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 10:37 pm

Crab season a bit pinched in Delaware, Maryland

Molly Murray · August 15, 2014 3:48 pm

A field worker empties a bucket of Vidalia onions into a waiting truck in Lyons, Ga., earlier this summer. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Manhattan Moment: A new layer of regulation would boost cost of onions but not safety

Jared Meyer · August 14, 2014 9:00 pm

This Sunday, June 8, 2014 photo shows John Deere farming equipment at a dealership in Petersburg, Ill. Deere & Co. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Deere takes a hit as farm economy weakens

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 6:07 pm

Evan Olmstead, 2, looks at Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal at Piazza's grocery store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, May 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Energy and Environment

Tony the Tiger and the Keebler elves are fighting climate change

Zack Colman · August 13, 2014 11:00 am