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Farmers and other water users in the Klamath Basin have finally come to the end of the legal road in their attempt to get compensation for water that was reallocated to protect endangered fish in 2001.

USDA imposed sanctions on a firm in Fresno, Calif., for failing to meet its contractual obligations under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced Monday that it will provide eight states with an additional $2.8 million for suppressing high grasshopper and Mormon cricket populations.

PepsiCo and Corteva Agriscience announced Tuesday that collaboration between academics, government officials and members of the private sector has led to the sequencing of the full oat genome for use in open-source applications.

With a new study suggesting the state is in a megadrought, PPIC researchers looked into what that means for water management.

Rosie Cornelius announces retirement and Jeff Huckaby is named the Organic Trade Association’s Organic Farmer of the Year.

A Virginia lawyer who was heavily involved in Roundup litigation before being fired in 2019 by his law firm has pleaded guilty to trying to extort $200 million from an unnamed chemical company.

Bayer’s supervisory board is due to discuss and vote in the next few days on a settlement of thousands of claims by plaintiffs that exposure to Roundup caused their cancer, a German business publication reported Tuesday.

Agri-tourism operations around the nation have seen differing levels of success dealing with stay-at-home orders and visitor restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Some farms, notably U-pick operations, are finding it easier to adapt. Others aren’t.