Farm bill plows ahead to Senate, House

Is this the "Monsanto Protection Act 2.0"? REUTERS/Brent Smith The 2013 farm bill approved by the House Agriculture Committee this week would cut 2 million people off food stamps because of the proposed $20 billion funding reduction. Sponsorship ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will support the House farm bill even though it cuts $20.5 billion in food stamps, Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) told reporters Friday. Leader Pelosi is behind us. Ive ...

By: Bill Spiegel Company takes cast-off commercial materials and puts them to work in agriculture. Damon Mason has created a new business for castoff items: Repurposed Materials is a place where surplus goods from corporate America can find a new ...

Congress is hoping to make progress next week on the Keystone pipeline, student loans and the farm bill before leaving for the Memorial Day break.House Republicans are looking to end the work session with a vote pressuring the Obama administration ...

Pigs, chickens, the U.S. Constitution — and a dose of olive oil — all got thrown together in a House farm bill markup that took a remarkable turn from the barnyard to the judicial bench late Wednesday night. Im one of these country lawyers, ...

With the overdue farm bill festering again in Congress, Republicans and Democrats have resumed clashing over whether the government should regulate the milk supply by penalizing farmers who produce too much. Farmers will need to enroll in that ...

The nation's largest domestic food aid program should not be the item that sinks the House farm bill when it reaches the floor in June, Agriculture Committee

(Updates with Senate chairwoman rejecting House food-stamp cuts in eighth paragraph.) May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee failed to restore cuts in federal food-stamp spending as the panel approved yesterday a $940 ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Reps. Timothy Walz (D-Minn.), Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), Ann Kuster, (D-N.H.), William Enyart (D-Ill.) and Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) for sponsoring an amendment to ...