A White House garden will put healthy food for the First Family in the spotlight—and maybe a little healthy competition too, as Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack doubles down....

The kumbaya era is over: Organic agriculture is now large enough to face some of the same systemic problems that conventional agriculture struggles with every day.

The growth of the organic-food market has hit a recession-related roadblock—the downward spiral of overproduction and lower prices.

A whole new approach is the subject of the third Senate hearing on school nutrition re-authorization.

A major new study links consumption of red meat to premature death. But is beef really to blame?

For generations, the students at Red Cloud Indian School raised their own food—then the federal government got into the act.

The re-authorization of the School Lunch Programs promises to benefit both students and farmers, but the devil is in the details.

The new nominee for Deputy Secretary of Agriculture is a spot-on selection by Obama and Vilsack.

The Senate Committee on Agriculture is responsible for U.S. farm policy as we know it—but Kirsten Gillibrand, the committee’s newest member, may help push it in a better direction....

The creation of a garden gives clues about how our new Secretary of Agriculture—a man well-versed in commodity agriculture—is approaching food policy.