Key leaders of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation wrote their colleagues this week asking for opposition to a cloture vote scheduled for Tuesday on the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009 (S. 146).

New analysis of comments NAWG received as part of a recent biotech petition effort is now online at www.wheatworld.org/issues/biotechnology.

A new study shows that America’s Heartland, a half-hour public television series about American agriculture and farm families, is significantly improving attitudes about agriculture among non-farm viewers.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a climate change bill by a 33-25 vote late Thursday after a week of mark-ups and months of negotiations.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) urged forward movement on a pending free trade agreement with Panama at a hearing on the subject held this week by his Committee.

High Plains Journal and DuPont Crop Protection have teamed up with two life-long custom harvesters to share the 2009 harvest experience with producers and the public through the World Wide Web.

Farmers around the world utilizing biotechnology are growing more crops in a more environmentally sustainable manner, according to a report issued this week from the United Kingdom-based PG Economics.

Organizations representing the wheat industry in the United States, Canada and Australia announced Thursday they will work toward the goal of synchronized commercialization of biotech traits in the wheat crop.

Mark-up of climate change legislation is slated for Monday in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, after weeks of negotiations and vote counting.

Fifty agricultural organizations including NAWG wrote Congressional agriculture and transportation leaders this week expressing support for the agricultural hours-of-service (ag HOS) exemption.

NAWG and 14 other groups provided yet another set of comments on the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure rule late last week, emphasizing a number of areas in need of more investigation before compliance is mandatory for farm operations.

NAWG and U.S. Wheat Associates recently joined two dozen other groups in writing to the House appropriators to reiterate P.L. 480 food aid priorities.

The Obama Administration released long-awaited budget details Thursday reflecting little change to agriculture proposals despite significant criticism from industry and Members of Congress.

Congress finished work on a $3.56 trillion FY2010 budget resolution this week, with the Senate passing the conference report 53-43 and the House passing it 233-193.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) is set to mark-up a bill May 14 that could expand the authority of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation under the Clean Water Act.

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee delayed mark-up of draft climate change legislation this week as Members and their staffs continue to work on compromises that would allow the contentious issue to move forward.