LONDON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The best Christmas present the creaking global economy could hope to receive would be sudden agreement on the Doha Round of the world trade talks. Fat chance. It looks further away than ever, after Brazil and Canada just launched a new complaint against U.S. farm subsidies and India swore to block U.S. anti-dumping proposals.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its first major revision in nearly three decades in the foods offered in its Women, Infants and Children program.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush said he would sign a U.S.-Peru free-trade agreement that cleared Congress Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. Forest Service agricultural expert who had volunteered for Afghanistan reconstruction, was killed by a roadside bomb, officials said Friday.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Acting U.S. Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner gave a glowing report of America’s crop production Friday.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The Agriculture Department Friday announced $9 million in broadband connection grants to 19 rural communities in 14 states plus Puerto Rico.