April 28, 2016
The Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee this week released a draft two-year Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) reauthorization bill, scheduled for mark-up on April 28. Following an overdue comprehensive act in 2014, Congress ...
A bipartisan group of senators last week urged U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to ensure the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) included a strong framework for agriculture, including resolution on both tariff and non-tariff ...
By John Gordley, Director of ASA’s Washington Office As Congress begins to consider writing a new farm bill in 2018, it’s time to review how the Agricultural Act of 2014 (AA-2014) is performing, what problems ...
April 25, 2016
Cornell University released a study this month that found a lack of nectar sources, habitat loss and weather are impacting the dwindling Monarch butterfly population. According to the Cornell Chronicle, researchers found problems in the ...
April 21, 2016
Syngenta and the Analytics Society of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) are proud to name Xiaocheng Li, Huaiyang Zhong, and Associate Professors David Lobell and Stefano Ermon, a team from ...