POLICY

House GOP lawmakers are asking for a revised atrazine assessment.

It’s mere days from the 2016 presidential election, but that’s far from the only race on the ballot. And some of these down-ticket House of Representatives races are currently running neck-and-neck. Thanks to a pair of online resources, you can easily find out where all the close races are happening.

The trade deal’s many opponents are not the only obstacle; proponents have not articulated an exciting vision of what the agreement could mean.

The benefits of free trade have been a cornerstone of economic thought for decades. Recently, though, trade agreements have become the target of a populist backlash, with opposition to trade deals emerging as a key issue in the presidential race. At the same time, new research suggests that trade led to lower wages and higher unemployment for some Americans, particularly middle-class manufacturing workers.

Buying bankrupt plants on cheap to become No. 5 U.S. producer.

California voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use — an issue that has sown deep division here among longtime growers. But many fear Proposition 64 will bring costly regulations and taxes and could put them out of business if corporate interests and big farms take over.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council government affairs office in Washington, D.C., are accepting applications for the fall 2014 public policy internship.

Kentucky’s U.S. Senate candidates differed sharply on federal farm policies Thursday, offering the most substantive policy discussion of the campaign in a race that so far has focused more on Rand Paul’s presidential aspirations and Jim Gray’s tenure as mayor of the state’s second-largest city.

Six major farm organizations have declared that property tax reform, instead of a constitutional protection for a “right to farm,” should be the main priority for keeping agriculture in Nebraska strong.

With a failed ballot measure that sought changes to the state’s decades-old corporate farming law in the rear-view mirror, a potentially lengthy federal court battle over its legality has arisen.