Articles Tagged with ''Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service''

Speakers at a recent White House listening session pleaded with the Biden administration to modernize U.S. regulatory oversight of gene-edited plant products to compete with other countries that have streamlined processes allowing for quicker approval.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is nearing the completion of a five-year pilot surveillance program to monitor antimicrobial resistance and will establish a permanent surveillance program.

The economic consequences of Mexico following through on a presidential decree to ban genetically modified corn in 2024 would have severe economic ramifications for the U.S. and Mexican economies, resulting in billions of dollars in losses for U.S. farmers and much higher food prices for Mexican consumers, according to a study by World Perspectives Inc.

Farmers in North Dakota and Minnesota have made a lot of progress over the past week in getting their crops of wheat and corn in the ground.

America’s national bird has not been immune to a recent string of highly pathogenic avian influenza infections, according to Agriculture Department data tracking the outbreak.

Poultry and egg producers are closely watching the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has already hit more states than the 2014-2015 outbreak and infected close to half the number of birds as it did seven years ago.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing a report today focusing on potential mitigation measures.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has now spread to 14 states and more than 7.6 million birds, with the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s announcement that a commercial layer flock in Wisconsin had been infected.