Agri-pulse Daily Voice

Capitol Hill staffers from the House and Senate toured a pair of Virginia facilities demonstrating how American ag products are sent to overseas markets.

The cutoff for summer sale of E15 is just around the corner, and there’s no deal in place to allow the fuel to be sold this summer.

Ag Negotiator Gregg Doud says the Trans-Pacific Partnership could provide the basis for a bilateral trade agreement with Japan should the country show interest in negotiating.

Organic producers are looking to tackle issues with overseas fraud, but an agricultural trade expert doesn’t want that to mean the end of trade relationships.

House Ag Committee Chair Mike Conaway is confident he has the votes to pass the farm bill once GOP leaders work out they party’s immigration issues.

Two students are winners of Alltech Young Scientist awards for their work in agricultural research.

USDA Undersecretary Bill Northey says he anticipates producers will be able to use new online tools by the end of the year.

On Friday, the House voted down a farm bill for the second time in five years.

An amendment that would have drastically changed federal sugar policy suffered a bipartisan defeat on the House floor Thursday, helping ag lawmakers avoid a change that could have tanked the farm bill.

House Ag Committee Chair Mike Conaway kicked off floor debate for the farm bill on Wednesday, kicking off a process that will unfold through the rest of the week.

The House is set to consider a farm bill this week, and Senate Ag Committee Chair Pat Roberts wants his bill to be not far behind.

A congressional deadline for North American Free Trade Agreement talks is right around the corner, giving negotiators only two more days to finish up their deal making.

More than 100 farm bill amendments have been filed as the House of Representatives looks to consider the legislation this week.

A bill introduced on Thursday would allow state-inspected meat processing facilities that meet federal standards to sell their products across state lines.

Fires that hit the state of Oklahoma last month are out, and damage estimates are piling up.

The White House held a meeting Tuesday to discuss the Renewable Fuel Standard, and biofuels groups saw some good and some bad coming out of the deliberations.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was in Iowa on Monday, and her day involved a stop at a farm to hear about ag issues and try to sell the Democratic Party to rural voters.

Talk of an infrastructure proposal in Washington has cooled, but Farm Credit Council CEO Todd Van Hoose would still like to see something move.

The livestock industry got some relief from a federal trucking regulation earlier this year, but work is ongoing to extend that relief past the end of the fiscal year.

There’s been plenty of talk about the EPA’s governance of the Renewable Fuel Standard, but biofuels groups remain confident the agency will be timely in its 2019 volume proposal.