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A Senate vote today on Sonny Perdue as the new USDA Secretary and a White House agriculture-related meeting on Tuesday are the key focus items for the week ahead.

The slow-then-fast Congress is in a likely short-run fast period, so here are some updates of some policy issues of note.

“Do not open the farm bill” is the mantra when the farm sector wants no changes. But when they do want changes, a must-have bill is the vehicle for change.

By Tim Burrack: Arlington, Iowa Nobody knows who will win the Iowa caucuses on Monday, but judging from the latest polls, it looks like the top finishers in both parties will be trade protectionists. This is astoni

USDA Sec. Vilsack could be one of the possible candidates to replace Tipton at end of 2016

Food prices rose 1.9% in 2015

Snow/blizzard delays House, Senate action | FOMC | Food prices

By Benjamin Olumuyiwa Adewumi: Oyo State, Nigeria “What’s the point of increasing my yield if most of it will rot anyway?” For farmers, that’s the voice of despair—and I often he

House is out, Senate in | Focus returns to as US confirms more bird flu cases | Child nutrition

Farm-state lawmakers and especially farm groups like to get rather than give, and that is clearly the message in the ongoing tax reform debate.