Marc has reported on agricultural issues since 1993 when he began reporting for the Watertown Daily Times in northern New York. He reported for the Daily Times for 18 years, including more than 14 as its Washington, D.C., correspondent. For the past few years, he reported on tax legislation for Bloomberg BNA. Marc grew up in White Plains, N.Y., and holds a graduate degree from Columbia University. He won several state Associated Press writing contests while reporting for New York newspapers.
Federal investigators probing the Department of Agriculture's research on climate change didn't uncover evidence that officials squelched work on it — but they stumbled into another disturbing finding: The agency couldn't say exactly what its own researchers are doing.
Farmers are standing on one solution to climate change — the soil under their feet — but need more incentives from Washington to put it to work as a carbon sink, witnesses told the House Agriculture Committee yesterday.
Conservation groups called on the Forest Service to sharply reduce logging in the Black Hills National Forest, after the agency stuck by higher timber targets at the close of the Trump administration.
The Senate swiftly confirmed Tom Vilsack today as the next secretary of Agriculture, returning the veteran Iowa politician to the job he held for eight years in the Obama administration. The vote was 92-7.
Freezing weather in Texas could cost the state's citrus industry more than $300 million, but the damage could have been worse.