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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
The Energy Department (DOE) is putting up $25 million to fund research into innovative approaches to strengthen and secure the nation's critical energy infrastructure.
The House Energy and Commerce environment subcommittee on Friday examined the potential impacts a transition to higher octane fuels could have on refiners, biofuel producers, automakers and consumers.
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works showed strong bipartisan support for the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act in a hearing on Wednesday.
Syngenta has received a positive scientific opinion from the European Food Safety Authority for food and feed use of Agrisure Duracade, allowing the corn trait to move to the next step in the process of final grain import approval.
Smithfield Foods Inc. and Florida startup Anuvia Plant Nutrients are partnering to create sustainable fertilizer from renewable biological materials collected from manure treatment systems at Smithfield’s hog farms.
The Justice Department has decided to approve Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto after DOJ and the two companies reached an “agreement in principle,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has joined NASA iTech in launching a competition to identify transformational energy technologies.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today issued a statement making it clear that USDA does not regulate, or have any plans to regulate, plants produced through new breeding tools such as genome editing, as long as they are not plant pests or developed using plant pests.
Ensuring that U.S. farm productivity keeps growing at its robust clip will take a whale of a lot of doing, say experts in crop and livestock production and research.
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