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Porter Family honored with Agricultural Environmental Management Award.

The two congressmen pledge to build a more effective economic safety net for the U.S. dairy industry.

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,

Any large-scale expansion of U.S. ag exports will only be possible if the nation can get more commodities and farm products to market, something some experts say the country already struggles to accomplish.

EMMETSBURG, IOWA - Each fall in corn country, big combines prowl through the fields, stripping the valuable kernels from ears and spitting out bits of cornstalk, leaves and empty cobs.The residue, which used to lie on the ground and rot, has become a money crop for the next generation of biofuel.Poet LLC, the nation’s leading ethanol producer, says it is determined to open a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in 2013 next to its existing corn-ethanol plant in this northern Iowa community. The $250 million project could be the first such plant in the nation. Last month, the U.S. Energy Department conditionally committed to a $105 million loan guarantee for it."The technology is there -- it is definitely to the point where we can build the best-in-class plant, and the trick is getting these plants up,” said Brooke Coleman, executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council, which represents many of the approximately dozen U.S. companies working to commercialize cellulosic ethanol.

Three attendees and an exhibitor tell what brings them back to Expo.

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.

Recent high temperatures and high-priced feed expected to constrain growth in per-cow milk.