Articles by Steve Davies

USDA says it’s confident that your hamburger is safe to eat, announcing results of tests showing that cooking patties to an internal temperature of 145 or 160 degrees – medium and well-done – killed the H5N1 virus.

Democratic members of the House Agriculture Committee met with Senate Ag Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday afternoon and left reiterating concerns about the GOP farm bill proposal.

The renewable fuels industry is welcoming a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding EPA’s renewable fuel volume obligations for 2020-2022, including a 250-million-gallon supplemental volume requirement for 2022 that the agency added to comply with a previous decision from the same court.

Bayer’s earnings declined in the first quarter of 2024 as the company reported lower sales in crop protection, including a significant decline in the value of glyphosate-based product sales.

There are a lot of new details now about the farm bill that Republicans plan to push through the House Agriculture Committee next week. Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., on Friday afternoon released a 38-page section-by-section summary on his draft and is expected to release more detail later this week.

Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are proposing to raise Price Loss Coverage reference prices by 10% to 20% depending on the commodity, while also providing increased income protection to growers under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program and crop insurance, according to a section-by-section summary released Friday.