Western states, Florida and Texas led with increased input, while extreme heat curbed Midwest production.

House Ag Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson advocates discussion draft, rather than legislation, to achieve dairy reform.

Local governments have been stretched to the limit of their capabilities to check food for radiation just before harvesting the first rice crop since the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The farm ministry has attached extra importance to the safety of rice, the nation’s staple food,

Three major construction phases due to be completed by fall 2012 will allow FDA to enhance both efficiency and quality

These days, farm subsidies are blamed for lots of things, even the nation’s obesity epidemic. Critics say the billions of dollars in annual subsidies encourage farmers to grow too much grain. Prices drop, food gets cheaper, and we eat too much. Seems like a simple equation, except it’s not.

Europe’s biggest farms will see their EU agricultural subsidies capped at E300,000 a year under draft proposals to reform the bloc’s farmpolicy from 2014, according to a leaked draft.