Senate Agricultural Committee
Colorado’s Bennet most vulnerable member of Senate Ag
Democrat Michael Bennet of Colorado is the most vulnerable of the six members of the Senate Agriculture Committee who are running for re-election in 2016. The political website Sabato's Crystal Ball says the race leans toward Bennet, who won a full term in 2010 with 48 percent of the vote in a seven-candidate race. Republican Ken Buck took 46.4 percent of the vote. The narrow margin is among the reasons a competitive race is possible this time.
Heitkamp opts to stay in Senate, won’t run for governor
World Bank cuts funds for ag-research network
The World Bank has reduced by $20 million its annual funding for a global agricultural research network that it helped found 35 years ago, says the Hagstrom Report.
Strong support for school food as reauthorization nears
More than eight of every 10 Americans say school nutrition standards "should stay the same or be strengthened," said the WK Kellogg Foundation in releasing results of a new poll.
Turkey farm is first bird-flu site in Iowa to re-stock flock
Nearly three months after avian influenza was confirmed on Moline Farms near Manson, Iowa, the turkey farm is filling its barns with new birds.
Stabenow is for Clinton, is Mississippi for Cochran?
In an essay for CNN, Senate Agriculture chairwoman Debbie Stabenow endorsed former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for president. She described Clinton as "extremely competent, extremely intelligent" and "someone who understands what middle-class families have been going through and how to give every family a fair shot to get ahead in life."
House Ag chairman Scott coasts to nomination
House Agriculture chairman David Scott easily won nomination for his 11th term in Congress from a suburban Atlanta district, defeating three challengers during Georgia's primary elections on Tuesday.