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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Bringing all medically important antimicrobial drugs approved for use in animals under veterinary oversight and promoting proper stewardship of antimicrobials are among the goals of a five-year plan released by the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine on Friday.
Farmers have always looked for ways to save money on inputs while increasing their crop yields, but research in recent years has increasingly made the case that restoring soil health is a way to do both. Enter biochar.
Sentiment is growing for the Environmental Protection Agency to establish some type of cutoff for use of dicamba next year, when the agency makes it decision on whether to allow use of the controversial herbicide in 2019.
There’s a noisy battle over water rights going on in the Golden State. Late last month, a diverse group of over 1,000 Californians flooded the State Capitol to tell the State Water Resources Control Board that their updates to the Bay-Delta Plan just won’t hold water.
EPA’s Office of Inspector General says the agency failed to properly justify the level of security used to protect former administrator Scott Pruitt, allowing costs to increase 110 percent over an 11-month period.
The Environmental Protection Agency failed to take into account the risks associated with dicamba before allowing Monsanto's Xtendimax formulation of the herbicide to be used for the 2017 growing season, lawyers for environmental groups and small family farms told a federal appeals court Wednesday.
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue’s decision to answer a phone call from a number marked “Unknown” may lead to movement on the administration’s stalled efforts to allow year-round sales of E15.
Bayer, which now includes Monsanto, will continue to defend itself from lawsuits alleging that the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup does not cause cancer, the company’s CEO told financial analysts in a teleconference Thursday.
The Trump administration has proposed a replacement for an Obama-era rule targeting power plant pollution, offering a new rule that would provide more leeway to the states to curb carbon emissions.
The American Farm Bureau Federation and other agricultural organizations are asking a Texas court to block enforcement of the Obama-era “waters of the U.S.” rule in the 26 states where courts have not already stayed its implementation.
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