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Conservation groups hoping to preserve waterfowl habitat on more than 800,000 acres of land have proposed a $375 million Environmental Quality Incentives Program initiative that would pay farmers to conserve small wetlands and flood rive fields after harvest.

Agriculture and forestry could play meaningful roles in reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world, but lack of financing and know-how remain important barriers, according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

CVS is taking steps to reduce the use of pesticides that could be harmful to pollinators.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is refusing to open the Conservation Reserve Program to cropping this year.

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

Senate Democrats are seeking quick confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court this week, while U.S. agriculture and other export-minded sectors are watching what the House does with the Senate-passed Ocean Shipping Reform Act, which is intended to ease port bottlenecks.

USDA today will release its annual survey of farmers’ planting intentions, which will be the department’s first good reading on how much farmers will shift their crop mix as a result of the Ukraine war and soaring costs for fertilizer and other inputs.

A prominent African leader says the food crisis in Africa this year because of the war in Ukraine “might be even worse” than the price spikes in 2008

The Biden administration is fielding a steady stream of requests for emergency action to allow for summertime sales of E15, but those calls are coming up against the realities of the fuel supply chain as demonstrated by the actions of a pro-biofuel company.

As more farmers in Maine find out that their land or dairy cows are contaminated with PFAS, the state legislature is considering a bill that would provide compensation and medical monitoring.