May 23, 2013
In a busy week that saw a unanimous Supreme Court decision in Bowman v. Monsanto, the announcement of additional studies on biotech crop varieties from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the markups of farm ...
ASA and 19 other farm groups and ag stakeholders have written to President Barack Obama in support of the nomination of Jason Weller to be Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Weller has ...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) filed an amendment Wednesday that would make the United Soybean Board and all national checkoff programs and promotion boards voluntary. This is similar to an amendment filed by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) last year, ...
The Senate wrapped up the first portion of its debate on amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill today. Senators filed more than 200 amendments to alter certain aspects of the legislation before it comes to ...
On Thursday, a bipartisan group of Senators advanced Amendment 1119, a Sense of the Senate Resolution supporting market-oriented farm policy and opposing any program with high fixed target prices and/or planting requirements, or requiring farmers ...
