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CalEPA announced today that the state's Department of Pesticide Regulation is acting to ban the use of chlorpyrifos in California by initiating cancellation of the pesticide.

CDFA is offering listening sessions and taking comments on a grant program offering technical assistance to farmers for climate smart ag practices.

The office may be adding new trade specialists to expand efforts for agriculture in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

The Environmental Protection Agency has kicked off comment periods on two glyphosate-related matters — one a proposed interim registration decision and one a petition to eliminate its use as a pre-harvest dessicant for oats.

A bill proposing a California version of the USDA's Rural Development agency would devote an economist to studying the impacts of SGMA.

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration reform, the result is that U.S. consumers are paying more for a less-secure food supply as more production moves south of the Mexican border in search of farm labor.

The United Nations report concluding that 1 million species are at risk of extinction included some familiar advice for agriculture: Adopt more sustainable practices, preserve genetic diversity in seeds and animals, and involve more sectors, including the public, in the food system.

Brian Leahy spoke about activist scientists ruling on chlorpyrifos, the disconnect when pesticides are seen as evil and removing products without funding research to replace them.