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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is updating its scrapie regulations and program standards. These updates include several major changes, which are needed to continue …

OMAHA (DTN) — Despite some lobbying last month by the crop-insurance industry, the Trump administration’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2020 again calls for reducing crop-insurance premiums, lowering income eligibility …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday a formal agreement to …

At the Montana Stockgrowers Convention, there was good news for stockmen who lost cattle due to the past hard winter. If you can document worse losses than normal, the “Livestock …

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (DTN) — In the debate over which agency should take the lead in regulating cell-cultured proteins — or meats — the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday …

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a slate of Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Committee Appointees. State committees are selected by the Secretary, serve at the pleasure of the …

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced on Friday that his agency will withdraw the proposed Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices final rule. The rule was signed in the waning hours of …

At Northern Ag Network, we have been reporting since 2012 on the concern about the stringent USDA nutrition guideline set forth for the national school lunch program. Over the last …

Agri-Marketing reports:  President Donald Trump has proposed halting funding for rural clean water initiatives and reducing county-level staff, for a 21 percent drop in discretionary spending at the Department of …

Kami Kilwine, rangeland management specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Miles City, Mont., was recognized by NRCS as the Early Career Rangeland / Pastureland Conservationist for 2016 …